Flattery vs Clattery - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour.
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, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 (countable) An instance of excessive praise.
As a noun flattery
is (uncountable) excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour.As an adjective clattery is
(informal) tending to cause a clatter; noisy and possibly cumbersome.flattery
English
Noun
citation, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery , seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}