0 the act of praising someone, often in a way that is not sincere, because you want something from them -- 奉承，討好，恭維
As part of this policy, ' promises, flattery and threats were employed ' to bring the clergy round to his views.
The island is an allegory of the insubstantial promises and flatteries that people must subsist on to survive in this world.
By appropriating the music of his enemy, he cloaks his subterfuge in flattery.
While individual citizens will vary in their sensitivity to implicit denigration or explicit flattery, on average authoritarian speech should elicit more disaffiliation and electoral speech should elicit more affiliation.
I am not asking for flattery for my colleagues.
After all, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, we know the judgment of the rest of the world on our record.
Fifty-two days is quite long enough for me to learn to avoid the temptations and seductions of flattery.
