Flattery

Etymology
From, , from , from the verb. Synchronically analyzable as.

Noun

 * 1)  Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour.
 * 2)  An instance of excessive praise.
 * 1)  An instance of excessive praise.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:flattery

Translations

 * Albanian: lajka
 * Belarusian: ліслі́васць, лёсткі, лёстачкі
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: adulació
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech: lichocení, pochlebování
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: flato
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, Schöntuerei,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κολακεία
 * Irish: spleáchas, spleá, bladar, plámás
 * Old Irish: spled, spledachus


 * Italian: salamelecchi,, , , , chitarrata
 * Japanese:, , 諂媚
 * Korean:
 * Latin: blanditia, adulatio
 * Lithuanian: meilikavimas
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ласкање
 * Roman: laskanje
 * Slovak: lichotenie
 * Spanish: ,
 * Tagalog: pambobola
 * Telugu:
 * Tok Pisin: gris
 * Ukrainian: ле́стощі, ле́стка
 * Volapük:


 * Albanian:
 * Czech: lichotka
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: Geschmeichel
 * Greek:


 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Spanish:, , , , , , ,
 * Tok Pisin: gris


 * Hungarian: