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Flatter
Flatter Flat"ter, v. i.
To use flattery or insincere praise.
If it may stand him more in stead to lie, Say and
unsay, feign, flatter, or adjure. --Milton.
Flatter
Flatter Flat"ter, n.
1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.
2. (Metal Working)
(a) A flat-faced fulling hammer.
(b) A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for
drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
FlatterFlatter Flat"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flattered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Flattering.] [OE. flateren, cf. OD. flatteren; akin
to G. flattern to flutter, Icel. fla?ra to fawn, flatter: cf.
F. flatter. Cf. Flitter, Flutter, Flattery.]
1. To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or
attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by
artful and interested commendation or attentions; to
blandish; to cajole; to wheedle.
When I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he
does, being then most flattered. --Shak.
A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net
for his feet. --Prov. xxix.
5.
Others he flattered by asking their advice.
--Prescott.
2. To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but
sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.
3. To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of;
as, his portrait flatters him.
Meaning of Flatter from wikipedia
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flatter is a
coloring specialist within the
comic book
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prepares the
inked or
sketched comic book page for the
colorist with
digital art...
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Jamie Flatters (born 7 July 2000) is an
English actor,
filmmaker and singer. He
began his
career as a
child actor on
stage and in the CBBC
sitcom So Awkward...
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writers to
flatter the
reigning monarch, as
Edmund Spenser flattered Queen Elizabeth I in The
Faerie Queene,
William Shakespeare flattered King James...
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Flatterer (1979–2014) was an
American Thoroughbred racehorse. He was a
specialist steeplechaser who was the
first to win the
title of
American Champion...
- Paul
Flatters (16
September 1832 – 16
February 1881) was a
French soldier who
spent a long
period as a
military administrator in Algeria. He is
known as...
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Slimming Mirrors,
Flattering Lights is the
second album by
Canadian indie pop band The
Awkward Stage,
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- Jean-Jacques
Flatters, (6
November 1786 – 19
August 1845) was a
French neo-classical sculptor. He was the
father of Lieutenant-colonel Paul
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structured programming,
removing one
level of
nesting and
resulting in
flatter code:
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guard { ... } with if not guard: return; .... Using...
- Chardin, Sir John (June 1997). "Persians: Kind, hospitable,
tolerant flattering cheats?". The Iranian.
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original on 20 June 1997. Retrieved...
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north and north-west; the Lowlands, a
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