| Main Entry: | flatterer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complimenter |
Synonyms: |
apple polisher, backscratcher, booster, bootlicker, brownnose, cajoler, charmer, fawner, flunkey, lackey, puffer, sweet talker, sycophant, teacher's pet, toady, yes-person |
| Main Entry: | lackey |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | servant |
Synonyms: |
attendant, butler, domestic, doormat, drudge, factotum, flunkey, retainer, steward, subordinate, toady, underling, valet, yes-person |
| Main Entry: | adulator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sycophant |
Synonyms: |
apple polisher, brownnose, fawner, flatterer, flunkey, lackey, toady |
| Concept: | Flatterer. |
| Category: | 2. Moral sentiments |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
flatterer, adulator; eulogist, euphemist; optimist, encomiast, laudator, whitewasher., toady, toadeater; sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant; flaneur, proneur; puffer, touter, claqueur; clawback, earwig, doer of dirty work; parasite, hanger-on (servility) [more].
-phrases
pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes [Tacitus].
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