Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who compliments another grossly and to his face.
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19, “And meddle not with such as flatter with their mouth,” as indeed commonly they who reproach the absent, flatter the present; a backbiter is a face-flatterer.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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