flatteryとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈflæt.ə.ɹi/
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈflæt.ɚ.i/
  • ハイフネーション: flat‧te‧ry

名詞

flattery (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 flatteries)

1. (uncountable) Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 2, in The Mirror and the Lamp‎^[1]:

     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.

2. (countable) An instance of excessive praise.
   • 1651, Jos[eph] Hall, “Soliloq[uy] XI. False Joy.”, in Susurrium cum Deo. Soliloquies: Or, Holy Self-conferences of the Devout Soul, […], 2nd edition, London: […] Will[iam] Hunt, and are to be sold by George Lathum junior, […], OCLC 926980637, page 37:

     But I pitty the flatteries, and ſelfe-applauſes of a careleſſe and impenitent heart: This jollity hath in it much danger, and vvithout ſome change, death.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:flattery

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