Definition of "flatteringly" [flat•ter•ing•ly]

• In a flattering manner. (adverb)

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• "The elegist of one of her daughters by an earlier marriage referred to her flatteringly as “sweet mother Scribonia.”"
• "The desolate cabin that she had left for the interminable journey westward was recalled flatteringly through the hallowing mists of time."
• "Mr. Trichet again tried to persuade investors that they should be looking at the eurozone as whole, which he argued compares "flatteringly" to its peers on the fiscal front, rather than at individual countries, some of which do not look all that good."