📚 Flatter, verb. 🔉 /ˈflatə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Lavish praise and compliments on (someone), often insincerely and with the aim of furthering one's own interests. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was flattering him in order to avoid doing what he wanted. 2. He does not flatter me with compliments, which I know cannot be genuine. 3. Yes, that possibility is something I wondered about when men flattered me with comments about being cute, sweet and sexy. 4. An assistant professor of creative writing at Columbia University told Time magazine that he flatters his students in order to guarantee favorable evaluations. 5. Remember, when you compliment the trainee you also flatter the person who trained them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic