10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLATTERABLE»
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flatterable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Necessary Dreams: Ambition in Women's Changing Lives
To me, one of the oddest and most telling of the qualities listed is “flatterable.”
There is something disparaging in the idea of women being flatterable; implicit is
the belief that the praise is unwarranted and that pleasure taken in it therefore ...
Johnson was clever enough to see the advantages of putting a gullible or
flatterable black man in charge — nominally — while he undermined a
government program designed to assist black people. Douglass was flatterable,
but not always ...
In fact only men are more flatterable than big boys. The use of the proper lbend of
flattery with a large amount of personal interest will make a much more effective
appeal at this age than the methods of the martinette. This is also the emotional ...
It's always one trouble with Mis' Hubbelthwait: she will flatter the flatterable. But
that time it didn't work. Mis' Sykes was up on a chair fixing a window-shade that
had flew up, and I guess she must have pinched her finger, she was so crispy.
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Curiosities of Law and Lawyers
And, besides, he was the most flatterable creature that ever was known ; for there
was a method of resignation to him, and treating him with little meals, and private,
with his pipe at ease, which certainly captivated him. So Sir George Jeffries ...
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The lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, baron Guildforfd; ...
And besides he was the most flatterable creature that ever was known ; for there
was a method of resignation to him, and treating him with little meals, and private
with his pipe at ease, which certainly captivated him. So Sir Q-eorge Jeffries ...
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A Dictionary of Simplified Spelling: Based on the ...
Flatterable. flldp*8, pp. Filled. flat'terdp*8, pp. Flattered. fll"har-mon'lep, a.
Philharmonic. fla'vorp*8, v. & n. Flavour. fll'l-bus"terd8, pp. Filibustered. fla'vordp*
8, a. Flavored, flavoured. flll'u-blp, a. Fillable. flawdp*8, pp. Flawed. fl-llp'plcp, n.
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Curiosities of law and lawyers, by Croake James
And, besides, he was the most flatterable creature that ever was known ; for there
was a method of resignation to him, and treating him with little meals, and private,
with his pipe at ease, which certainly captivated him. So Sir George Jeffries ...
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The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North: Baron Guilford; ...
And besides he was the most flatterable creature that ever was known ; for there
was a method of resignation to him, and treating him with little meals, and private
with his pipe at ease, which certainly captivated him. So Sir George Jeffries ...
Roger North, Augustus Jessopp,
1890
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Marriage and the Family
... Conscientious Analytical Compassionate Conventional Assertive Does not use
harsh language Friendly Athletic Eager to soothe hurt feelings Happy
Competitive Feminine Helpful Defends own beliefs Flatterable Inefficient
Dominant Gentle ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLATTERABLE»
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Jeremy Clarkson isn't Everyman, he's Reptonman
Or is this a piece of crawling of such grandiosity, Fawn, that even the notoriously flatterable Dave'n' George will see through it? I fear so. «New Statesman, Nov 09»