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Examples

  • I'm as subject to flatery as the next person, and so I had to agree.

    Bacon/Cheese Bread 2006

  • I'm as subject to flatery as the next person, and so I had to agree.

    Carbonnade 2006

  • Thanks I love flatery, doesnt get you anywhere with me but I love it just the same ...

    Techdirt Mike Masnick 2010

  • Thanks I love flatery, doesnt get you anywhere with me but I love it just the same ...

    Techdirt Mike Masnick 2010

  • Thanks I love flatery, doesnt get you anywhere with me but I love it just the same ...

    Techdirt Mike Masnick 2010

  • I guess imitation is a form of flatery - particularly when the person you are imitating threw a few dollars at you to save your butt

    British Blogs 2009

  • And M 'Fitch, not withstandinge his continuall makinge his market of the lands of this charter granted by the Kinge to the free men of this Colony, yet he is soe expert in the act of flatery that he makes many of the people beleive that he is the cheife patron of theire charter priv - elages; thus are this people guld & deceiued by him.

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

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