Roget's Thesaurus

#935. Flatterer

Nouns

flatterer, adulator; eulogist, euphemist; optimist, encomiast, laudator [Lat.], whitewasher. toady, toadeater; sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant; flaneur [Fr.], proneur [Fr.]; puffer, touter, claqueur [Fr.]; clawback, earwig, doer of dirty work; parasite, hanger-on etc. (servility) 886. yes-man, suckup, ass-kisser [Vulg.], brown-noser [Vulg.], teacher's pet.

Phrases

pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes [Lat.] [Tacitus].