Flattering is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FLATTERING in dictionary:

VERB:
• FLATTER, to praise excessively
• cause (someone) to feel honoured and pleased
• choose to believe something favourable about oneself, typically when this belief is unfounded
• give an unrealistically favourable impression of
• (of a colour or a style of clothing) cause (someone) to appear to the best advantage
• please (the ear or eye)
• lavish praise and compliments on (someone), often insincerely and with the aim of furthering one's own interests
ADJECTIVE:
• That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a flattering speech.
• showing or representing to advantage

Words related to FLATTERING

flatter10 flattered13 flatterous13 flatters11

Words that contain FLATTERING

flatteringly19 unflattering16 unflatteringly21

How to use FLATTERING in a sentence

• The air of perfect equality he maintained between them, his attitude of intimacy, flattering, almost affectionate, this it was which she felt she must not recognize.
• Which advice, though it came from a person ridiculous to her, seemed sound enough, and was in fact rather flattering.
• Assurances of the most flattering nature were profusely showered on the new state, by the sister republic which had effected this new revolution.
• Rey gives us this flattering tableau as a social picture of Morocco.
• Too soon, however, were all my flattering hopes and dreams dispelled.
• It is possible to avoid both discouraging and flattering views, and to give the most tender and elevating associations.
• I refused the flattering offer, however, as I was quite bent on getting back to Cambridge Gulf.
• His reception by the latter, whom he never before had met, was not only cordial but flattering.
• McGrath was surveying the operation critically, nodding his head in approval from side to side, and uttering short ejaculations of the most flattering nature.
• My hopes on that subject are not desperate, but neither are they flattering.
• This is the difficult part of the business of treaty, and I own it does not hold out the most flattering prospects.
• The confidence you are so good as to place in me, on the subject of the interest lately given you by Virginia in the Potomac company, is very flattering to me.
• American reputation in Europe is not such as to be flattering to its citizens.
• Notwithstanding all this flattering attention and flood of prosperity, he never lost his head or changed in either action or speech.
• Whatever he promised was accepted with avidity, because his promises were at once so flattering and exaggerated.
• The educational progress was flattering, and at the same time a little disturbing.
• It warred with all his ideas of himself and the feminine mind to think that under their flattering circumstances she really could be so vitally deficient.
• The presence of the male somewhat disturbed the priestess, but the male had signified a wish and the wish was flattering and had to be fulfilled.
• If she lacks references he writes her flattering ones, or loans her a reference written by some woman of prominence.
• For flattering planets seemed to say This child should ills of ages stay, By wondrous tongue, and guided pen, Bring the flown Muses back to men.
• The papers were more flattering than they had ever been before.
• Whose situation was more agreeable, whose prospects more flattering, than Mr.
• This difficulty may be accounted for in a very flattering manner.
• When she entered a salon, she was greeted with a flattering murmur of admiration and good-natured curiosity.
• Secondly, because all such ceremonies were of a complimentary or flattering nature, and were expressly forbidden by Jesus Christ.
• Happerley Nimrod has spun so handsome and flattering a yarn, if I did not feel deeply proud of the compliment you have paid it.

Similar words containing FLATTER without suffix ing

flatter10 flatters11 flattery14 flattered13 flatterer12 flatterers13 flatteries13 flatterous13 flatterable16 flatteringly19 flatterously18 unflattering16 unflatteringly21

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