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/ˈflæt.ə.ɹi/ · noun
(uncountable) Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour..
Don't you know that some of his contributions here are pure flattery?
That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
But I pitty the flatteries, and ſelfe-applauſes of a careleſſe and impenitent heart: This jollity hath in it much danger, and vvithout ſome change, death.
Use flattery when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Flattery means (uncountable) Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour..
Common synonyms include carny, flattery, incense, adulation.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Don't you know that some of his contributions here are pure flattery?
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