Synonyms for flatterer
flat·ter·er

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1. flatterer, adulatornoun

   a person who uses flattery

   Synonyms:
   adulator

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1. flatterernoun

   Synonyms:
   sycophant, fawner, parasite, wheedler, toady, flunkey, spaniel, lick-spittle, pick-thank, toad-eater

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1. flatterernoun

   Synonyms:
   wheedler, sycophant, toady, pickthank, flunky, jenkins, adulator, blandisher

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1. Cosino DeGregrio:

   Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon.

2. Walter Raleigh:

   But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

3. Francis Quarles:

   Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

4. Proverb:

   When the flatterer pipes, the devil dances.

5. Proverb:

   A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.