Meanings
comparative more flattersome · superlative most flattersome
- Marked by flattery; characteristically flattering
It would be composed and dispatched overnight by lesser members of the flattersome company.
2013, Wyndham Lewis, C.J. Fox, Journey into Barbary3 more examples
Kind friends, it would be pretending of me not to let on that I know I am the party referred to by the last speaker — in far too flattersome words.
2013 (originally 1916, 1928), J. M. Barrie, Delphi Complete Peter Pan Books - Works of J. M. Barrie“[...] I ask you, please lift my head a little higher, sir.” “Now, ma'am,” Fox said, “I know enough to hold on to a good thing when I get it.” “Mercy me, Mistah Fox,” Sis' Duck replied. “You are mighty flattersome in your remarks. [...]”
2006, Robert D. San Souci, Sister Tricksters: Rollicking Tales of Clever FemalesThis was said with a flattersome German deference, which gave a little added depth to the pleasurable sensations resulting from Dr. Abbott's reactions at finding himself sharing his table with a Star.
2010, Wyndham Lewis, Self Condemned
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