Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Flattery; cajolery.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun flattery designed to gain favor
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synonyms (126)
Words with the same meaning
- Pecksniffery
- Tartuffery
- Tartuffism
- adulation
- advocate
- allurement
- artful endearments
- be hypocritical
- bill and coo
- blandish
- blandishment
- blandishments
- blandness
- blarney
- bunkum
- butter
- cajole
- cajolement
- cajolery
- call on
- call upon
- cant
- caress
- coax
- coaxing
- compliment
- conning
- copulate
- dally
- empty gesture
- endearment
- engagement
- enlistment
- exhort
- exhortation
- eyewash
- fair words
- false piety
- fawning
- flattery
- fulsomeness
- give lip service
- give mouth honor
- glibness
- grease
- high-pressure
- honeyed phrases
- honeyed words
- hortation
- hypocrisy
- hypocriticalness
- importune
- incense
- inducement
- insist
- insist upon
- jawbone
- jawboning
- lip service
- lobby
- lobbying
- lollygag
- make love
- make out
- mealymouthedness
- mouth
- mouthing
- mummery
- nag
- neck
- oil
- oiliness
- ostentatious devotion
- palaver
- pat
- persuasion
- pet
- pharisaism
- play the hypocrite
- plead with
- praise
- preaching
- preachment
- press
- pressure
- pretty lies
- push
- recommend
- reek of piety
- religiosity
- render lip service
- sales talk
- salesmanship
- sanctimoniousness
- sanctimony
- selling
- smooch
- smoothness
- smugness
- snivel
- snow job
- snuffle
- snuffling
- soap
- soft soap
- soft words
- soft-soap
- solicitation
- spoon
- suasion
- suaveness
- suavity
- sweet nothings
- sweet words
- sycophancy
- tokenism
- toy
- trifle
- unctuousness
- urge
- wanton
- wheedle
- wheedling
- whisper sweet nothings
- work on
- working on
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