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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overflatter .
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Examples
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He involved himself in a confused medley of apologies that were not wanted, and of compliments that might have overflattered the vanity of a savage.
Armadale 2003
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He involved himself in a confused medley of apologies that were not wanted, and of compliments that might have overflattered the vanity of a savage.
Armadale Wilkie Collins 1856
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Means or for any Purpose overflattered, are apt to practise this which one may call the preventing Aspect, and throw their Attention another
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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