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лесть nstresses
gen. adulation; apple sauce; applesauce; flam; palaver; sugar; sycophancy; treacle; soft sawder; cajolery; gloze; sugarplum; toadeating; whillywha; eye-wash; incense; placebo; taffy; cajolement; ear candy (приятное (м.б. в угоду) кому-то ivann); flattering remark; mouth honour; good words; forelock-tugging (КГА); blandishment; fair words; flattery (Taras); cajoling; captation; cogging; daubing; fawn; fawning; flattery; glozing; wheedle; wheedling
brit. lipsalve
fig. soap
inf. blarney; soft soap; sweet talk; build-up; grease; sawder
Makarov., inf. apple
obs. flummery; glose; sycophantry
poetic mouth-honour
rel., christ. deceit (mafondue)
slang butter; drip; eyewash; goo; hokum; honey-cooler; sweet-talk; banana oil; oil
vernac. salve
vulg. kiss-ass (см. ass-kissing)
лестью n
gen. jolly along
inf. jolly (обыкн. jolly along, jolly up)
грубая лесть n
inf. eyewash
лесть: 166 phrases in 14 subjects
American usage, not spelling1
Archaic1
Derogatory1
General104
Informal4
Makarov37
Mass media2
Obsolete / dated1
Photography1
Proverb3
Psychiatry1
Scottish usage1
Slang8
Vernacular language1