flattery

     

Flattery or aulation is the act of giving excessive compliments, generally for the purpose of ingratiating oneself with the subject. Flattery often, but not always, connotes insincerity.

Trivia about flattery

  • "Imitation is the sincerest form of" it
  • "Imitation is the sincerest form of" it, but beware, it "corrupts both the receiver and the giver"
  • "Imitation is the sincerest form of" this
  • It'll "get you nowhere"(8)
  • On Earth it may "get you nowhere"; in the "Inferno" it gets Alessio immersed in filth
  • This word for excessive & sometimes false praise is also the name of a cape in Washington State

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