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Court :: Court (n.) Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.

Sycophant :: Sycophancy (n.) Obsequious flattery; servility.

Gloze :: Gloze (n.) Flattery; adulation; smooth speech.

Court :: Court (v. t.) To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with.

Favel :: Favel (n.) Flattery; cajolery; deceit.

Wheedle :: Wheedle (v. t.) To grain, or get away, by flattery..

Fume :: Fume (n.) The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.

Taffy :: Taffy (n.) Flattery; soft phrases.

Dupe :: Dupe (n.) To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's credulity; to gull; as, dupe one by flattery..

Parasite :: Parasite (n.) One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant..

Sugared :: Sugar (v. t.) To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof..

Insinuate :: Insinuate (v. i.) To ingratiate one's self; to obtain access or favor by flattery or cunning.

Sick :: Sick (superl.) Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery..

Blarney :: Blarney (n.) Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery..

Adulation :: Adulation (n.) Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited..

Cajolery :: Cajolery (n.) A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery.

Sugar :: Sugar (n.) Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.

Inveigle :: Inveigle (v. t.) To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle.

Cajole :: Cajole (v. i.) To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle.

Fulsome :: Fulsome (a.) Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery..

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