Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

blandiloquence†; cajolery; fawning, wheedling &c v.; captation†, coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism†, toadeating†, tuft- hunting; snobbishness. incense, honeyed words, flummery; bunkum, buncombe; blarney, placebo, butter; soft soap, soft sawder†; rose water. voice of the charmer, mouth honor; lip homage; euphemism; unctuousness &c adj.. V. flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver†, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly [U.S.]; bespatter, beslubber†, beplaster†, beslaver†; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue†; truckle to, pander to, pandar to†, suck up to, kiss the ass of [Vulg.], pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one's bent; lick the dust. lay the flattering unction to one's soul, gild the pill, make things pleasant. overestimate &c 482; exaggerate &c 549. Adj. flattering &c v.; adulatory; mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed; honeyed; smooth, smooth-tongued; soapy, oily, unctuous, blandiloquent†, specious; fine-spoken, fair spoken; plausible, servile, sycophantic, fulsome; courtierly†, courtier-like. Adv. ad captandum [Lat.].