'flatterer' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is an noun that refers to someone who compliments or praises someone excessively in an insincere way. For example, "He is nothing more than a shallow flatterer."
Indeed, the purest flattery -- the sort most surely liable to work -- occurs when neither the flattered nor the flatterer knows it is going on.
In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville arrived from France to marvel at the vigour of America's civic society, while another Gallic flatterer, J. Hector St John de Crèvecoeur, earlier demanded, "What then is the American, this new man?" Short of more up-to-date French compliments, Americans seem captivated by these ones.
But even if Dr Weed were a flatterer with a less bitter pill to swallow, there would still be a host of challenges blocking his health-care cure.
Reynolds was never a mere society painter or flatterer.
But he was not a natural politician, a tub-thumper in negotiation rather than a flatterer, and a tongue-tied mess in public speaking.
He was a blusterer, a flatterer and an arrogant bully who dumped his daughters in a convent.
He flattered the flatterers: "How did you people like the movie?" We liked it just fine, some much more than others.
And whatever pretensions to majesty that Prince Charles may have had are left in shreds by Hitchens's description of his tendency to surround himself with "every moon-faced spoon-bender, shrub-flatterer and water diviner within range".
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If it were in Dante's Inferno, the euro would have moved from the eighth circle (the penultimate one), when flatterers are immersed in excrement, to the third, where foul stuff rains down on gluttons.
Many villagers are practised flatterers.
