| He was a blusterer, a flatterer and an arrogant bully who dumped his daughters in a convent. | 
| Surely you would not converse on such a subject with a slave or a flatterer. | 
| The crowd's loud cheers and shouts of applause were typical of the flatterer, excessive and insincere. | 
| Yet perhaps he is only some false flatterer who is scorning us all the time. | 
| But he was not a natural politician, a tub-thumper in negotiation rather than a flatterer, and a tongue-tied mess in public speaking. | 
| Dissipated rascal, and venal flatterer the poetaster had always been, but never traitor. |