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flatteringly

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Middle English flateryngly

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Middle English · inherited fromflateryngly
English todayflatteringly

From Middle English flateryngly, flateringli, alteration of earlier flaterandly. By surface analysis, flattering + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.