| Main Entry: | flattery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false praise, compliments |
Synonyms: |
adulation, applause, approbation, blandishment, blarney, bootlicking, cajolery, commendation, encomium, eulogy, eyewash, fawning, flattering, flummery, fulsomeness, gallantry, gratification, hokum, honeyed words, incense, ingratiation, jive, laud, mush, obsequiousness, palaver, plaudits, pretty speech, puffery, servility, smoke*, snow job, snow*, soft words, soft-soap, stroke*, sweet talk, sycophancy, toadyism, tribute, truckling, unctuousness |
Antonyms: |
belittlement, castigation, condemnation, criticism, denunciation, insult, offense |
| Main Entry: | frivolity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | silliness, childishness |
Synonyms: |
coquetting, dallying, flightiness, flippancy, flirting, flummery, folly, fribble, frippery, frivolousness, fun, gaiety, game, giddiness, jest, levity, lightheartedness, lightness, nonsense, play, puerility, shallowness, sport, superficiality, toying, trifling, triviality, volatility, whimsicality, whimsy |
Antonyms: |
sensibility, seriousness, wiseness |
| Main Entry: | knickknack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trinket; decorative piece |
Synonyms: |
bagatelle, bauble, bibelot, bric-a-brac, conversation piece, curio, curiosity, device, embellishment, flummery, frill, furbelow, gadget*, miniature, notion, novelty, objet d'art, ornament, plaything, showpiece, souvenir, thingamajig, toy, trapping, trifle, whatnot, whimsy |
| Main Entry: | balderdash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
bosh, bull, bunk, claptrap, crock, drivel, flummery, fudge, fustian, jargon, malarkey, moonshine, poppycock, rigmarole, rot, trash, tripe, twaddle |
| Main Entry: | palaver |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | empty talk |
Synonyms: |
babble, blab, cajolery, chatter, chitchat, clack, conference, conversation, debate, dialogue, discussion, flatter, flummery, gab, parley, talk, wheedle |
| Main Entry: | fiddle-faddle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
baloney, bull, bunk, flummery, frippery, frivolity, froth, hogwash, malarkey, minutia, trifle, trifles, triviality |
| Concept: | Flattery. |
| Category: | 2. Moral sentiments |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
flattery, adulation, gloze; blandishment, blandiloquence; cajolery; fawning, wheedling; captation, coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism, toadeating, tuft-hunting; snobbishness., incense, honeyed words, flummery; bunkum, buncombe; blarney, placebo, butter; soft soap, soft sawder; rose water., voice of the charmer, mouth honor; lip homage; euphemism; unctuousness.
-verbs
flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly [U.S.]; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one's bent; lick the dust., lay the flattering unction to one's soul, gild the pill, make things pleasant., overestimate; exaggerate.
-adjectives
flattering; adulatory; mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed; honeyed; smooth, smooth-tongued; soapy, oily, unctuous, blandiloquent, specious; fine-spoken, fair spoken; plausible, servile, sycophantic, fulsome; courtierly, courtier-like.
-adverbs
ad captandum.
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