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flatter
«The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.»
Author: Clare Boothe Luce
(Diplomat, Playwright)
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Women
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deserved, flatter, smacked
«To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is ''misunderstood'' or that he is ''different''; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.»
Author: Helen Rowland
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brilliant, complimentary, flatter, flat out, infinitely, misunderstands, misunderstood, necessarily, noble, none, perfectly, spending money, spends, telling, too much, works
«We flatter those we scarcely know,We please the fleeting guest,And deal full many a thoughtless blowTo those who love us best.»
«When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.»