Word Meanings - BEFLATTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To flatter excessively.

Related words: (words related to BEFLATTER)

• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• FLATTERINGLY
  With flattery.
• FLATTERING
  That flatters ; as, a flattering speech. Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. Shak. A flattering painter, who made it his care, To draw men as they ought be, not as they are. Goldsmith.
• FLATTERER
  One who flatters. The most abject flaterers degenerate into the greatest tyrants. Addison.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• OUTFLATTER
  To exceed in flattering.