flatterers

• To-day the young King junkets with his flatterers, and but rarely thinks of England. —  Chivalry
• Yet if this was the mind of the better folk, there was no lack of base and venomous creatures--flatterers, time-servers, and sycophants--to minister to his wickedness and malignity Dark were the days which now fell on Sarras, and few were those on which some violence or injustice, some deed of lust or rapacity was not flaunted in the face of heaven. —  A Child's Book of Saints
• It is quite true that we did not present ourselves humbly, like your flatterers and parasites, but holding up our heads as befits independent men. —  The Idiot
• Such painters are, no doubt, great flatterers, and it is rather their ingenuity, than their truth, which we admire in these cabinet-pictures I am a philosopher, as far removed from superstition as from impiety; a voluptuary, who has not less abhorrence of debauchery than inclination for pleasure; a man who has never known want nor abundance. —  Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
• Vannozza, of a truth, had seen many of the former friends, flatterers, and parasites of her house desert it; but a number, among whom were several important personages, remained true. —  Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day

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