flatterer's Usage Examples:

There were no poor in his dominions, no thief or robber, no flatterer or miser, no dissensions, no lies, and no vices.

At court, though no trifler or flatterer, he was a favourite counsellor in three successive reigns, but he never meddled much in civil or temporal affairs.

The word is now generally used in the sense of a cringing flatterer of the great.

Surrounded by a crowd of slaves, mistresses and flatterers, he permitted his empire to be administered by unworthy favourites, while he squandered the money wrung from his provinces on costly buildings and expensive gifts to the churches of his metropolis.

A provision eminently wise for the age of Pericles easily became a mischief when the once honourable name of "demagogue" began to mean a flatterer of the mob.

His flatterers called the king Philip the Great.

After her death in 1806 he was drawn into other intrigues by flatterers, and, in October 1807, was arrested for the conspiracy of the Escorial.

Synonyms:

follower, ass-kisser, adulator, lackey, crawler, sycophant, toady,

Antonyms:

aristocrat, father, superior, disparage, leader,