Crossword-Solution: FLATTER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Flatter | n. | One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. |
| Flatter | n. | A flat-faced fulling hammer. |
| Flatter | n. | A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc. |
| Flatter | v. t. | To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle. |
| Flatter | v. t. | To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations. |
| Flatter | v. t. | To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him. |
| Flatter | v. i. | To use flattery or insincere praise. |
We have 65 clues for the answer “FLATTER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| toady to | 1 answer |
| ___ than a pancake | 1 answer |
| Use oil on, you might say | 1 answer |
| Praise insincerely | 1 answer |
| EXAGGERATE good points of | 1 answer |
| Butter up, say | 1 answer |
| Compliment excessively | 1 answer |
| beslobber | 2 answers |
| BESLAVER | 2 answers |
| Fawn upon | 2 answers |
| Butter up big-time | 2 answers |
| show to advantage | 2 answers |
| Praise effusively | 3 answers |
| MAKE distinguished | 3 answers |
| pattern oneself on | 3 answers |
| Pander (to) | 3 answers |
| smarm | 4 answers |
| Blacksmith's tool | 4 answers |
| suck up to | 5 answers |
| Apple-polish | 5 answers |
| flannel | 6 answers |
| Soft soap | 6 answers |
| Overpraise | 7 answers |
| soft-soap | 7 answers |
| Ingratiate oneself | 8 answers |
| gloze | 8 answers |
| Butter up | 11 answers |
| blandish | 13 answers |
| eulogise | 14 answers |
| congratulate | 15 answers |
| bootlick | 17 answers |
| Soap | 18 answers |
| Ingratiate | 20 answers |
| Sweet talk | 20 answers |
| Wheedle | 21 answers |
| Sweet-talk | 22 answers |
| befool | 24 answers |
| panegyrise | 30 answers |
| Become | 30 answers |
| Fawn | 33 answers |
| Gratify | 33 answers |
| Cajole | 33 answers |
| Pat on the back? | 33 answers |
| Consecrate | 33 answers |
| glamorize | 34 answers |
| beatify | 35 answers |
| Adulate | 37 answers |
| Dedicate | 37 answers |
| Massage | 39 answers |
| Condescend | 40 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FLATTER (5)
Can’t my hair be brushed down a little flatter? I dread going—yet I dread the risk of wounding him by staying away.” “Anyhow, ma’am, you can’t well be dressed plainer than you are, unless you go in sackcloth at once.
Where 470 Easily canst thou find one miserable, And not inforced oft-times to part from truth, If it may stand him more in stead to lie, Say and unsay, feign, flatter, or abjure? But thou art placed above me; thou art Lord; From thee I can, and must, submiss, endure Cheek or reproof, and glad to scape so quit.
Surely at the present moment you must hope, as I do, that the enigmatical Scarlet Pimpernel will start for Calais to-day—” “I am only conscious of one hope, citoyen.” “And that is?” “That Satan, your master, will have need of you elsewhere, before the sun rises to-day.” “You flatter me, citoyenne.” She had detained him for a while, midway down the stairs, trying to get at the thoughts which lay beyond that thin, fox-like mask.
Lorry flattened his flaxen wig upon his head with both hands (which was most unnecessary, for nothing could be flatter than its shining surface was before), and resumed his former attitude.
Falling at his feet, they will make requests to him and do him honour and flatter him, because they want to get into their hands now, the power which he will one day possess.
Quotes with FLATTER (3)
Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
A philosopher named Aristippus, who had quite willingly sucked up to Dionysus and won himself a spot at his court, saw Diogenes cooking lentils for a meal. "If you would only learn to compliment Dionysus, you wouldn't have to live on lentils." Diogenes replied, "But if you would only learn to live on lentils, you wouldn't have to flatter Dionysus.
The only successful philosophies and religions are the ones that flatter us, whether in the name of progress or of hell. Damned or not, man experiences an absolute need to be at the heart of everything.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1973–2021).