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# flatterer

«flatterer» in Mova's school dictionary: **someone who praises you too much, often to please you or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural flatterers)

### meaning for a pupil

A flatterer is someone who praises you too much, often to please you or to get something from you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flatterer/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a bad character who tells a ruler what he or she wants to hear

### examples

- Alas, he was led away by flatterers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flatterer/#x1)
- This just shows me how sensible I have been in never listening to flatterers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flatterer/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «flatterer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flatterer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.