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Recent Examples of flattery Private Money, Public Breakthroughs To call Saad Bhamla and his seven co-recipients polymaths is more than flattery. John Drake, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025 In aggregate, users favored responses full of agreement and flattery. ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025 So what could these CEOs do, instead of flattery and humiliation? Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025 Thanks to gorgeous mountains, bountiful outdoor recreation and a thriving capital city, Idahoans often sip blissfully from a stream of flattery flowing from the outside world. Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 19 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flattery
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flattery
Noun
  • Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries have emerged as central figures in the standoff, drawing praise even from critics within their own ranks.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Post-match, Nuno opted against singling out Potts for praise when asked about the midfielder’s impact, but that may change in the forthcoming weeks if Potts continues to impress.
    Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The mix does include some peanuts, but there are also Cajun-style corn sticks, roasted corn, almonds, honey roasted sesame sticks, and my favorite component—butter toffee peanuts.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Highlights include a shareable chef's whim butter board, baked crab dip, snow crab avocado stack, short rib mac and cheese, salt and vinegar fish and chips, bayou baby back ribs and prime grade filet mignon.
    Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Putin was portrayed as an unsightly troll, who, by an act of magic—a spell cast by the puppet version of Boris Berezovsky, the magnate who helped engineer his rise to the Presidency—comes to appear beautiful and virtuous, the subject of great adulation and deference.
    Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Irwin politely refused to accept Tonioli and Hough's adulations, crediting it all to his partner.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Season two saw Cherish cast in an HBO project about the sitcom writer who made her life hell in season one, earning widespread acclaim professionally even as her personal life was falling apart.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But the lack of universal acclaim doesn’t annoy Warren.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Gladys Knight struggles but met with adoration The adoring audience didn't need an opening hype video to recognize how special this single-show lineup was - but admittedly Knight, 81, was having a harder night.
    Piet Levy, jsonline.com, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Thousands stomped in the bleachers, creating rumbling waves of adoration.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Don’t fall for compliments that don’t feel genuine, and don’t be afraid to confront whatever’s beneath someone’s sweet talk.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The odds are that such sweet talk is going to inevitably run out or at least be intermittent.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2025

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“Flattery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flattery. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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