| Wisdom is also needed in picking and satisfying his closest advisors and avoiding flatterers. |
| The fall in the level of the sea was interpreted as a mark of divine favour by Alexander's flatterers, including the historian Callisthenes. |
| Men like this associate only with flatterers, and are friends to nobody. |
| Your closest retainers and flatterers have never led you astray before and they will not fail you now. |
| She will almost never be praised in public except by oleaginous flatterers desperate for social advantage. |
| I was standing by the paddock surveying the latest in a line of equine flatterers and good-for-nothing loafers in which I was about to invest. |
