Example sentences for: flattery

How can you use “flattery” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Also, of course, skeptical of cant and immune to flattery.

  • This points to a final press-friendly quality of McCain's: brilliant flattery.

  • Applesauce (an American variant is apple sass ), which has come to designate a `camouflage of flattery,' is excessively sweet, mushy, pulpy and insubstantial, and thrifty boarding houses serve an abundance of the stuff to divert awareness from the scarcity of more nourishing fare.

  • For the moment, this beta release is only being promoted in Readme--that is, to our most loyal and discerning readers (who are also immune to crass flattery).

  • Jacob Weisberg's theory (in "Betty and Monica") that the cartoon he reprinted came from Maureen Dowd's column is high flattery for one of us, but it is inaccurate.


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