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   Flat·ter·y

   /ˈfladərē/

   

   noun

   • 1. excessive and insincere praise, given especially to further one's own interests: "his healthy distrust of courtiers' flattery"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French flaterie, from flater ‘stroke, flatter’, probably of Germanic origin and related to flat1.

   Scrabble Points: 14

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