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flat·ter¹

(flăt′ər)

v. flat·tered, flat·ter·ing, flat·ters

v.tr.

1. To compliment excessively and often insincerely, especially in order to win favor.

2. To please or gratify the vanity of: "What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering" (George Bernard Shaw).

a. To portray favorably: a photograph that flatters its subject.

b. To show off becomingly or advantageously.

v.intr.

To practice flattery.

[Middle English flateren, from Old French flater, of Germanic origin; see plat- in Indo-European roots.]

flat′ter·er n.

flat′ter·ing·ly adv.

flat·ter²

(flăt′ər)

1. A flat-faced swage or hammer used by blacksmiths.

2. A die plate for flattening metal into strips, as in the manufacture of watch springs.

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adjective pleased, delighted, honoured, gratified I am flattered that they should be so supportive.

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Sir Walter, indeed, though he had no affection for Anne, and no vanity flattered, to make him really happy on the occasion, was very far from thinking it a bad match for her.

They had their great cousins, to be sure, to resort to for comfort; but they must long feel that to flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

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The others are those demagogues who have a share in the oligarchy, and flatter the people: such were the state-guardians at Larissa, who flattered the people because they were elected by them.

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She is not a woman to be flattered because I made myself despicable-- to believe that I must be true to her because I was a dastard to you."

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