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I'm noting Nico was right with regards to the not-nice definition of flatter!
Hmmm. Learn something new every day!
1. To compliment excessively and often insincerely, especially in order to win favor.
2. To please or gratify the vanity of: "What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering" George Bernard Shaw.
3.
a. To portray favorably: a photograph that flatters its subject.
b. To show off becomingly or advantageously.
2. To please or gratify the vanity of: "What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering" George Bernard Shaw.
3.
a. To portray favorably: a photograph that flatters its subject.
b. To show off becomingly or advantageously.
Hmmm. Learn something new every day!
Originally Posted by shareall,Sep 17 2005, 08:50 PM
I'm noting Nico was right with regards to the not-nice definition of flatter!
Hmmm. Learn something new every day!
Hmmm. Learn something new every day!
I'm also thinking that people use it in the #3a or b sense, but definitions are listed in order of "weight" as it were.....








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