"flatter" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as a verb to mean to praise someone excessively or insincerely as in "He flattered her with kind words," or as an adjective to describe someone who is very thin or having a low, smooth surface as in "She wore a dress with a flattering cut."
For weeks, even months, they would refuse shampoo, resulting in hair that emitted cheap cider and bong fumes wherever they went and gradually became lanker, greasier and flatter.
This time, the constituency results flatter the Tory vote.
It was a relief when, south of Salerno, the countryside became flatter, more open, and less densely populated.
Figures of three for 49 did not flatter him.
It has denied allegations that it tried to flatter its accounts.
Part of the reason is pricier petrol, but flatter house prices will also dampen the spending enthusiasm.
But many are flatter, unfocused and ephemeral.Take the Maryland Bloods, which Trident was alerted to by a nasty kidnapping case last year.
Most would-be winemakers must flatter distributors, schmooze potential investors and beg for social-media attention.
They discovered that, contrary to popular belief, China's growth figures are in the "same ballpark" as Mr Li's indicators.Not every statistical distortion serves to flatter China.
Mr O'Neill says that, in any case, trade deals will not do much to alter underlying trends, even if China's growth slows.So although recent visits flatter some in Brussels into thinking that the EU can be part of a G3 with America and China, Europe remains the weakest link.
And flatter their self-image as "the best of the best" and the most jet-lagged of the jet-lagged.The most important quality recruiters are looking for is "fit": for all their supposedly rigorous testing of candidates, they would sooner choose an easy-going person with a second-class mind than a Mark Zuckerberg-type genius who rubs people up the wrong way.
