Flattery
Nouns
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flattery, adulation, gloze
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blandishment, blandiloquence
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cajolery
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fawning, wheedling etc. v.
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captation, coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism, toadeating, tuft-hunting
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snobbishness. incense, honeyed words, flummery
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bunkum, buncombe
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blarney, placebo, butter
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soft soap, soft sawder
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rose water. voice of the charmer, mouth honor
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lip homage
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euphemism
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unctuousness etc. adj..
Verbs
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flatter, praise to the skies, puff
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wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax
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fawn upon, faun upon
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humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter
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jolly [U.S.]
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bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver
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lay it on thick, overpraise
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earwig, cog, collogue
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truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of [Vulg.], pay court to
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court
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creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of
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fool to the top of one's bent
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lick the dust. lay the flattering unction to one's soul, gild the pill, make things pleasant. overestimate etc. Overestimation
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exaggerate etc. Exaggeration.
Adjectives
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flattering etc. v.
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adulatory
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mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed
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honeyed
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smooth, smooth-tongued
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soapy, oily, unctuous, blandiloquent, specious
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fine-spoken, fair spoken
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plausible, servile, sycophantic, fulsome
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courtierly, courtier-like.