flatter
51flatter oneself — believe something favourable about oneself, typically without foundation. → flatter …
52flatter to deceive — appear promising but ultimately disappoint. → flatter …
53flatter yourself — to persuade yourself that you are better, more attractive, more important etc than you are He liked to flatter himself that she was in love with him …
54flatter — Synonyms and related words: adorn, adulate, apotheosize, beautify, become, beguile, belaud, bend the knee, bepraise, beslobber, beslubber, blandish, bless, blow up, boast of, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, brag about, brown nose, butter up,… …
55flatter — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To praise unduly] Syn. overpraise, adulate, laud, glorify; see compliment 1 , praise 1 . 2. [To fawn upon] Syn. kowtow to, toady to, butter up*; see compliment 1 , grovel . 3. [To be becoming to a wearer] Syn. become,… …
56Flatter — Flatterf 1.leichtesMädchen.Analogzu⇨Schmetterling.BSD1965ff. 2.machdieFlatter!=geh(schleunigst)weg!Flattern=mitdenFlügelnschlagen;wegfliegen.Halbw1955ff …
57flatter — flat·ter || flætÉ™(r) n. person or thing that flattens; blacksmith s hammer (used to flatten metal) v. praise, compliment flæt n. level surface; level area of land; tone one half step lower than another (Music); apartment (British) adj. having …
58Flatter — Fladder (de) …
59flatter — v 1. compliment, salute, praise, laud, belaud, extol, exalt, celebrate, glorify, eulogize, panegyrize, adulate, trumpet, cry up, ring or sing [s.o. s] praises; puff, puff up, inflate, magnify, blow up, overpraise, praise to excess, praise to the… …
60flatter — flat·ter …
