Moreover, it is usually a cunning form of appeal to consequences, since the audience is subject to be flattered "as long as they comply" with the flatterer.
He is notoriously a smooth-tongued flatterer and a man who will promise anything; one soldier complains that no suitor ever left him dissatisfied, yet none ever received what he wanted.
The poem has generally been taken as a caution against listening to flatterers.
He was reportedly aided by several flatterers in his service.
Flatterer is the only horse to win the award four times in a row, his last coming at age 7 in 1986.
Grma serves as an archetypal sycophant, flatterer, liar, and manipulator.
He is a flatterer and appears to be a generally dishonest and unpleasant person.
Know that most people are egoist, flatterers, are insincere and you can't depend on them.