Synonyms of buttering up

buttering up 1 of 2

noun

as in soft soap

Synonyms & Similar Words

• soft soap
• butter
• sweet talk
• fawning
• endearment
• sycophancy
• praise
• flattery
• taffy
• toadying
• enticement
• ingratiation
• acclaim
• incense
• allurement
• applause
• adulation
• charming
• cajolement
• exhortation
• seduction
• flannel
• entreaty
• coaxing
• cajolery
• blandishment
• blarney
• charm
• influencing
• wooing
• massaging
• smarm
• tempting
• overpraise
• prompting
• courting
• swaying
• beguilement
• lobbying
• wheedling
• commendation
• romancing
• overpersuasion
• brainwashing
• pressuring
• urging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• depreciation
• detraction
• disparagement
• belittlement
• bad-mouthing
• put-down

buttering up

2 of 2

verb

present participle of butter up

as in sucking (up to)

to praise too much

a flunky who shamelessly butters up the boss

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sucking (up to)
• massaging
• praising
• commending
• stroking
• congratulating
• applauding
• honeying
• belauding
• puffing
• flattering
• hero-worshiping
• blarneying
• overpraising
• coaxing
• soft-soaping
• worshiping
• blandishing
• adulating
• wooing
• cajoling
• fawning
• complimenting
• hero-worshipping
• kowtowing
• wheedling
• extolling
• idolizing
• toadying
• eulogizing
• felicitating
• sweet-talking
• lauding
• endearing
• slavering
• worshipping
• ingratiating
• romancing
• gushing
• courting
• slobbering
• drooling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• putting down
• disparaging
• depreciating
• belittling
• decrying
• bad-mouthing