Crossword-Solution: FLATTERING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Flattering | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Flatter |
| Flattering | a. | That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a flattering speech. |
We have 28 clues for the answer “FLATTERING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Full of compliments | 1 answer |
| Adulator's forte | 1 answer |
| soapy | 8 answers |
| praiseful | 10 answers |
| ceremonious | 12 answers |
| enhancing | 12 answers |
| praising | 13 answers |
| ingratiating | 14 answers |
| eulogistic | 15 answers |
| ACCLAMATORY | 15 answers |
| commendatory | 19 answers |
| sycophantic | 19 answers |
| Obsequious | 23 answers |
| Unctuous | 23 answers |
| adulatory | 25 answers |
| Servile | 27 answers |
| congratulatory | 31 answers |
| COMPLIMENTARY ___ | 32 answers |
| laudatory | 33 answers |
| slimy | 33 answers |
| admiring | 35 answers |
| tongue in cheek | 41 answers |
| Oily | 44 answers |
| fulsome | 51 answers |
| COURTLY ___ | 54 answers |
| Fawning | 63 answers |
| backslapping | 64 answers |
| tame | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FLATTERING (5)
And he wooed her with caresses, Wooed her with his smile of sunshine, With his flattering words he wooed her, With his sighing and his singing, Gentlest whispers in the branches, Softest music, sweetest odors, Till he drew her to his bosom, Folded in his robes of crimson, Till into a star he changed her, Trembling still upon his bosom; And forever in the heavens They are seen together walking, Wabun and the Wabun-Annung, Wabun and the Star of Morning.
Psychologists tell me that, as the subconscious does not reason, too close a scrutiny of my mental activities might prove anything but flattering; but be that as it may, I have often won success while the thinker would have been still at the endless task of comparing various judgments.
And especially now, while, with her crested teaspoons and antique china, she was flattering herself with ideas of gentility, she felt an unspeakable disinclination to confront a customer.
Charles Darnay, alone in a cell, had sustained himself with no flattering delusion since he came to it from the Tribunal.
Blake to suppress what may not prove to be sufficiently flattering in these pages to the person chiefly concerned in them.
Quotes with FLATTERING (3)
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
Who would appreciate such candor? No one. None of us really likes honesty. We prefer deception — but only when it is unabashedly flattering or artfully camouflaged. Groups seem to need to believe that they are superior to others and that they have a purpose greater than just passing along their genes to the next generation. Individuals seem to need similar delusions — about who they are and why they do what they do. They need heroes, however fraudulent… Studies show that peop…
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1981–2025).