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  • 91laudatory — a. 1. Commendatory, panegyrical, eulogistic, complimentary, encomiastic, adulatory, flattering. 2. Lavish or extravagant of praise …

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  • 92smooth-tongued — a. Plausible, flattering, cozening, adulatory, smooth, smooth spoken, fair spoken …

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  • 93supple — a. 1. Pliant, pliable, flexible, flexile, limber, lithe, lithesome, easily bent, elastic. 2. Yielding, compliant, submissive, humble, soft. 3. Servile, obsequious, cringing, slavish, fawning, grovelling, sycophantic, flattering, supple chapped,… …

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  • 94sycophantic — a. Fawning, cringing, servile, slavish, parasitic, obsequious, adulatory, supple, grovelling, meanly submissive …

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  • 95unctuous — a. 1. Greasy, oily, fatty, fat, oleaginous, adipose, adipous, sebaceous, pinguid, butyraceous, unguinous. 2. Smooth, bland, slippery, lubric, lubricous. 3. (In a bad or offensive sense.) Smooth, bland, suave, over complaisant, oily, plausible,… …

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  • 96smooth — I. a. 1. Even, level, flat, plain, polished. 2. Sleek, glossy, polished, soft, plane. 3. Unruffled, undisturbed. 4. Easy, voluble, fluent, even, ready. 5. Bland, mild, soothing, insinuating, soft, suave, oily, flattering, adulatory, courtier like …

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  • 97adulation — noun (U) praise and admiration for someone that is more than they really deserve: basking in the adulation of his fans adulatory adjective …

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  • 98complimentary — adjective 1) complimentary remarks Syn: flattering, appreciative, congratulatory, admiring, approving, commendatory, favorable, glowing, adulatory; informal rave Ant: derogatory 2) complimentary tickets …

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  • 99fulsome — adjective he paid fulsome tribute to his secretary Syn: excessive, extravagant, overdone, immoderate, inordinate, over appreciative, flattering, adulatory, fawning, unctuous, ingratiating, cloying, saccharine; enthusiastic, effusive, rapturous,… …

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  • 100glowing — adjective 1) glowing coals Syn: bright, shining, radiant, glimmering, flickering, twinkling, incandescent, luminous, luminescent; lit (up), lighted, illuminated, ablaze; aglow, smoldering 2) his glow …

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