Crossword-Solution: FLATTERERS
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| Those who get nowhere? | 1 answer |
| Brown-nosers | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FLATTERERS (5)
But these hypocritical, ungrateful slaves, so often the self-invited flatterers at my board, who gave me neither pottage nor garlic, more or less, they die, by the soul of Hengist!” “But the Pope, my noble friend,”—said Cedric— “But the devil, my noble friend,”—answered Athelstane; “they die, and no more of them.
Can you guess how he will be likely to behave towards his flatterers and his supposed parents, first of all during the period when he is ignorant of the false relation, and then again when he knows? Or shall I guess for you? If you please.
You ought to tell her to work, to persevere.” “And we French, mademoiselle,” said Valentin, “are accused of being false flatterers!” “I don’t want any flattery, I want only the truth.
The nation was still aping the kings: like them it wished to award the lucrative positions to its friends and flatterers.
First, when it follows the flatterers, which is a common and especially harmful plague of this power, against which no one can sufficiently guard and protect himself.
Quotes with FLATTERERS (3)
In every reign there comes one night of greatest blackness, when a King must send away his court of flatterers and servants, and sit alone in the dark with the beast called truth. In the gloom of the grand hall, Slately could hear it breathe. Truth at court was treated as if it were a precious commodity. It was hoarded, coveted, bartered for. Certainly this analogy applied to lies; his courtiers accepted his lies as currency of the realm. He handed them lies in large denomina…
But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty, soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular. Susp…
Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being free from flatterers.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1976–2015).