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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flattering \Flat"ter*ing\, a. That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as a flattering speech. Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. --Shak. A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought be not as they are --Goldsmith. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flatter \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 From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: flattering adj : tending to reveal or represent favorably [ant: {unflattering}]
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