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Flattery Adams, Jack toady to his employer. [Br. Lit.: Dombey and Son] fawningly complains of Amos to King Jeroboam. [O.T.: Amos 7:10] one who flatters by pretending humility. [Br. Hist.: Espy, 343] cajoled by fox into singing; thus captured. [Br. Lit.: Canterbury Tales, “Nun’s Priest’s Tale”] toadies towards aristocracy. [Br. Lit.: The Relapse, Walsh Modern, 102] priggish, servile clergyman; toady to the great. [Br. Lit.: Pride and Prejudice] for his sycophancy to Dionysus, seated under sword at banquet. [Gk. Myth.: LLEI, I: 278] circle of mutual patters on the backs. [Br. Hist.: Wheeler, 254] cookie; pejoratively refers to obsequious Black with white aspirations. [Am. Culture: Flexner, 49] island of people sustained by insincere praise. [Fr. Lit.: Pantagruel] character came to signify subservient Black. [Am. Lit.: Uncle Tom’s Cabin] wooed by Robin Redbreast with enticing presents. [Nurs. Rhyme: Mother Goose, 23] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| It is not criticism, but flattery that she wants; and I gush over them with what I feel to myself to be degrading effusiveness. Moreover, Speranski, either because he appreciated the other's capacity or because he considered it necessary to win him to his side, showed off his dispassionate calm reasonableness before Prince Andrew and flattered him with that subtle flattery which goes hand in hand with self-assurance and consists in a tacit assumption that one's companion is the only man besides oneself capable of understanding the folly of the rest of mankind and the reasonableness and profundity of one's own ideas. From what I now saw of her, and what I heard from the children, I know that, in order to gain her cordial friendship, I had but to utter a word of flattery at each convenient opportunity: but this was against my principles; and for lack of this, the capricious old dame soon deprived me of her favour again, and I believe did me much secret injury. |
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