His knowledge of society is that of an upstart, who has risen from the lowest ranks by the arts of the bully, flattererand pander.
Suppose the case surpasses human skill, There comes a quack to flatter weakness still; What greater evil can a flatterer do, Than from himself to take the sufferer's view?
There is no suchflatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend.
Nine tithes of times / Face-flatterer and back-biter are the same.
But he "loved wine and oil," and to obtain what he loved he was willing to become the servant and the flatterer of worse men than himself, at the terrible risk of sinking to their level.
Munebraga's flatterer and favourite might possibly, by dint of the utmost self-possession and the most adroit management, have accomplished some little good.
The ape approved the cruel deed, A thorough flatterer by breed.
Comes there a moment's rest for serious thought, There comes a flatterer too, and brings it all to nought.
Oh, there is no flatterer half so dangerous to a prince as a fawning philosopher!
You made your court, I say, as servilely, and with as much offence to virtue, as the basest flatterer ever did to the most corrupted prince.
But your flatterer would use that line about the swineherd's hovel, if he saw a chance of getting anything out of the swineherd.
Demetrius Poliorcetes had a flatterer called Cynaethus who, when he was gravelled for lack of matter, found some in a cough that troubled his patron--he cleared his throat so musically!
Praise is tolerable up to the point at which the object of it can still believe in the existence of the qualities attributed to him; pass that point, and he is revolted and finds the flatterer out.
A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.
It is to be noted, that a woman's flatterer is generally older than herself, her years serving at once to recommend her patroness's age, and to add weight to her complaisance in all other particulars.
As a coxcomb is a fool of parts, so is a flatterer a knave of parts.
The Latin word for a flatterer (assentator) implies no more than a person that barely consents; and indeed such a one, if a man were able to purchase or maintain him, cannot be bought too dear.
Terence introduces a flatterer talking to a coxcomb whom he cheats out of a livelihood, and a third person on the stage makes on him this pleasant remark, "This fellow has an art of making fools madmen.
Cleopatra made as if she would brain the flatterer with her fan, but relenting, smiled upon him and proceeded: 'If my charming girl inherits any advantages from me, wicked one!
Then said the Shining One, "It is a Flattererthat has clothed himself like an angel of light.
Then the white robe fell off the black man's back, and they knew that he was the Flatterer and had brought them into his net.
A flatterer is a dunce to him, for he can tell him nothing but what he knows before: and yet he loves him too, because he is like himself.
Hence, be gone, If thou hadst not bene borne the worst of men, Thou hadst bene a Knaue and Flatterer Ape.
The decrees of the Demos correspond to the edicts of the tyrant, and the demagogue is to the one what the flatterer is to the other.
Both have great power--the flatterer with the tyrant, the demagogue with democracies of the kind which we are describing.
The emperor Sigismund giving a flatterer a blow on the face, called his fulsome praise the greatest insult that had ever been offered him.
Aristotle could not sit easy till he proudly made his friend Hermias sit below him; and he was as gross a flatterer of Alexander for the sake of vanity, as Plato was of Dionysius for his belly.
How One may discern a Flatterer from a Friend," ยง xxxvi.
They say the gadfly attacks bulls, and the tick dogs, in the ear: so the flatterer besieges with praise the ears of those who are fond of praise, and sticks there and is hard to dislodge.
One might detect again how greatly the flatterer differs from the friend by his behaviour to other friends.
How else indeed could the flatterer insinuate himself by the pleasure he gives, unless he knew that friendship admitted the pleasurable element?
Your servile flatterer always exaggerates what his victim wishes to be put strongly.
An open flatterer any one can detect, unless he is an absolute fool the covert insinuation of the cunning and the sly is what we have to be studiously on our guard against.
The Flatterer is a talker who insinuates himself into every circle; and there are few but are fond of his fair speech and gaudy praise.
What she said she meant, whether in praise or in censure; and no one could say she was a flatterer or a cynic.
He is no more a self-flatterer than a flatterer of others.
The Flattereris a lurking foe, a dangerous friend, a subtle destroyer.
The Flatterer is a false friend clothed in the garb of a true one.
A flatterer is compared to an ape, who because she cannot defend the house like a dog, labour as an ox, or bear burdens as a horse, doth therefore yet play tricks and provoke laughter.
They are hard to distinguish from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
A flattereris said to be a beast that biteth smiling.
For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self; and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self, as the liberty of a friend.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flatterer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
