Crossword-Solution: FLATTER 7 letters, 65 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
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
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.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
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.
Paradise Regained John Milton 1993
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.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
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.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994
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.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008

Quotes with FLATTER (3)

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
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.
Diogenes of Sinope
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.
Emil M. Cioran
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Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 13 times in crossword archives (1973–2021).