What is another word for flatterer?

Pronunciation: [flˈatəɹə] (IPA)

A flatterer is someone who exaggerates compliments to gain favor or manipulate others. Synonyms for flatterer include sycophant, toady, yes-man, fawner, adulator, bootlicker, and brownnoser. A sycophant is someone who ingratiates themselves with someone in power, either by flattery or sucking up. A toady is similar to a sycophant but can also be more generalized in its definition. A yes-man is someone who always agrees with the opinions of others, regardless of their true thoughts. A fawner is someone who flatters others excessively to gain their good will. An adulator is someone who flatters in an insincere or over-the-top manner. A bootlicker and brownnoser both refer to someone who will do anything to win favor with another person, even sacrificing their own dignity.

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Usage examples for Flatterer

"If he writes to please, and not to serve, he is a flatterer and a hypocrite; if to serve and not to please, he turns cynic and satirist.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
Chaminade's "The flatterer" followed.
"Brand Blotters"
William MacLeod Raine
The Valentine Repton of his imagination was a crafty pleader, a subtle cross-examiner, an ingenious flatterer of juries; but he was not a man whose nature was assailable by anything "not found in the books."
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever

Famous quotes with Flatterer

  • There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
    Francis Bacon
  • He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
    William Blake
  • Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
    Charles Dickens
  • Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
    Jean de La Fontaine
  • They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
    Ben Jonson

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