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Discover LudwigThe word 'flatters' is correct and commonly used in written English
It is a verb that means to praise or compliment someone in a way that is not sincere or genuine. Example: "She flatters him with compliments about his looks, but I can tell she doesn't really mean them."
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flatters
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Third person singular of flatter
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McCall admits Rangers' 2-0 first-leg lead flatters his side, so it's not beyond them.
Size inflation flatters customers, but the danger is that it encourages overweight people to dismiss health risks and reduces the incentive to diet.
One is that it flatters its current audience by inviting them to condescend to audiences past.
But a closer examination suggests that, because Shell includes in the weighted mix a lot of heavy oil from Venezuela (carbon-intensive stuff that greens also object to), the comparison flatters fuel made from tar sands.
There is room to reduce further both sides' warheads; it is also a subject that flatters Russia.
And in this case, the inclusion of Hoover's presidency flatters the Republicans, substantially lowering the average inflation rate.It may be that Wall Street prefers the Republicans because the party favours the better-off.
But too often it flatters to deceive; just as you hope the film will move beyond caricature, perfectly sculpted Georgian soldiers ride to the rescue.It is not news that small wars in foreign places are only interesting to Hollywood audiences when acted out by physically perfect Americans.
A DIRNDL is a traditional southern German or Austrian dress that flatters well-endowed women.
The paper provides the best evidence to date that economists' intuition that integration has made Europe vastly better off is correct.The end-date for the study, 2008, flatters the EU.
Under this reasoning, the calm, resolute Mr Abhisit was right to defy mob rule and the demand for the dissolution of parliament, and wait to unveil an orderly, slow electoral timetable.This complacent analysis flatters Mr Abhisit (the staunch democrat actually scurried to take refuge in an army barracks).
Discarding these workers subtracts little from the nation's output, he argues; it also flatters the productivity figures of those with jobs.America, Mr Lindert conjectures, can get away with an inefficient tax code because its tax burden is quite low.
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