What's the difference between courtier and flatter?
Courtier
Definition:
(n.) One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court.
(n.) One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the bad memories - the bloody purges, the violent anarchy of the Cultural Revolution - are officially classified as "mistakes", committed when Mao was old and no longer in control of his evil courtiers.
(2) Maybe Geithner, the veteran courtier, never made an effort to get to know the public.
(3) Among the most senior honours, the dominance of Sir Humphreys and courtiers is striking.
(4) In the published extracts she depicts Buckingham Palace and Clarence House as being at war, with feuding courtiers, dejected aides and dark constitutional menace should Charles III ascend the throne.
(5) The pits are filled with figurines of courtiers and animals, and you can see the fossilised remains of wooden chariots.
(6) Given the guile of those courtiers, that's quite a task: he'll need all the support he can get.
(7) Donald Trump's courtiers bring chaotic and capricious style to White House Read more Patrick Leahy, ranking Democrat on the Senate judiciary committee, said Trump “seems intent on precipitating a constitutional crisis”.
(8) Washington power-brokers and their media courtiers do not discuss him, and he does not make frequent (or any) appearances on US cable news outlets, but outside of those narrow and insular corridors - meaning around the world - few if any political thinkers are as well-known, influential or admired (to its credit, the Guardian, like some US liberal outlets , does periodically publish Chomsky's essays ).
(9) That has left the 33-year-old at the mercy of a range of courtiers.
(10) But more likely, the Times has needed encouragement to get to this precipice – Wendi or her courtiers (shades of Princess Diana) are fanning the flames.
(11) His curriculum vitae is depressingly like that of most Westminster courtiers - some dabbling in research, a bit of media PR, and time as a Whitehall aide de camp.
(12) The duke only resumed public engagements at the World Economic Forum in Davos in late January where he was pursued by reporters and used a short speech “to reiterate and to reaffirm” the existing emphatic Buckingham Palace denials of what courtiers described as “lurid and deeply personal” claims.
(13) Francis suggested that some members of the Vatican's large bureaucracy, which was last year plunged into crisis during the "Vatileaks" scandal, were indeed courtiers; but the main problem with the curia was its self-interested nature.
(14) "He is not just some leader with lots of money to throw at a football club," a senior courtier said.
(15) Like Blatter, Platini is surrounded by courtiers who tell him what he wants to hear.
(16) But like his fellow courtiers, Cohen takes his cues from the throne.
(17) Speaking of the council of cardinals, the advisory panel that met this Tuesday for the first time in what has been likened to a papal G8, he said: "[They are] not courtiers but wise people who share my feelings.
(18) Henry VIII's desperation for a male heir, meanwhile, turned Anne Boleyn's bedroom into a 16th-century Lindo Wing, with every contraction monitored by flocks of ambitious courtiers and the eventual emergence of the conspicuously non-male infant greeted with the sort of reception usually reserved for bears and third-degree cheese burns.
(19) Some courtiers – and the sovereign herself – fear that neither the crown nor its subjects will tolerate the shock of the new,” the book states.
(20) Still, they meant the Queen's partner had an affinity with her subjects that the ducal stuffed-shirt favoured by her courtiers might not have enjoyed.
Flatter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.
(n.) A flat-faced fulling hammer.
(n.) A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
(v. t.) To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle.
(v. t.) To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.
(v. t.) To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him.
(v. i.) To use flattery or insincere praise.
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) With profound blockade, the slope of the edrophonium dose-response relationship was significantly flatter (P less than 0.05) than that of neostigmine.
(3) The groups showed significantly different iEMG fatigue slopes, with the control group showing declining iEMG by repetition, while the CLBP group showed flatter, slightly increasing iEMG.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Farage ’flattered’ by Trump’s call for him to be US ambassador In another shot at Obama, referring to remarks by the US president before the Brexit vote about the possible trade consequences of Britain leaving Europe, Farage said: “No longer do we have a president who says that we’re at the back of the line.” Everything you need to know about Trump and the Indiana Carrier factory Read more He also said Hillary Clinton, Trump’s opponent, had “wanted the European Union to be a prototype for a bigger model across the whole world”.
(5) "It may not be nice, kind or flattering, but to put it as unlawful would be startling," White said.
(6) Carbamazepine has a flatter concentration-time profile than valproic acid.
(7) Flattered, entreated, begged by the rest of the committee, he did not yield: "Recommendations are recommendations, there it is"; and "I honestly believe it's all there"; "I promise you I have done my very best"; "if I hadn't thought my recommendations were fit for purpose, I would not have made them"; "with all due respect, I could not have done any more than I did".
(8) Perhaps the most flattering epitaph for Ronnie Biggs, who has died aged 84, was written for him many years ago by the unlikely figure of the former commissioner of the Metropolitan police Sir Robert Mark .
(9) "So that was very flattering and a little surprising," she says.
(10) When spectrin was rebound to the erythrocyte membrane, a decay in the anisotropy was still present but was markedly less sensitive to solution viscosity and flatter at longer times.
(11) Things are different now: wonks observe that we’ve got lucky with the chairs – Margaret Hodge on the public accounts committee (PAC), Rory Stewart on defence, Sarah Wollaston on health – but committee work is flattered mainly by comparison with everything else.
(12) We praise and flatter each other and automatically learn the details of each other's lives.
(14) Early flattering comparisons were made with the Strokes and Sonic Youth.
(15) Their pay structure is flatter and their sense of responsibility to the community stronger.
(16) I will propose a new school funding model from the commonwealth which will be flatter, simpler, fairer to all the states and territories and equitable between students,” he said.
(17) The instantaneous I-V curve was linear while in the steady state the curve became flatter at low negative membrane potentials and steeper at high negative membrane potentials.
(18) To describe this course of action as "clutching at straws" is to flatter it.
(19) She should be confronting her party's prejudices, not flattering them.
(20) The steeper the curve of Spee, the more irregular the cusp height and angulations are with steeper anterior cusps and flatter posterior cusps.