Synonyms and related words :
adulation, apple-polishing, ass-kissing, backbiting, backscratching, backstabbing, belittlement, blandishment, blarney, bootlicking, brown-nosing, bunkum, cajolement, cajolery, calumny, compliment, cringing, defamation, depreciation, disparagement, eyewash, fair words, fawnery, fawning, flattery, flunkyism, footlicking, grease, groveling, handshaking, honeyed phrases, honeyed words, incense, ingratiation, insinuation, mealymouthedness, obeisance, obsequiousness, oil, palaver, parasitism, praise, pretty lies, prostration, scandal, slander, soap, soft soap, sponging, sweet nothings, sweet talk, sweet words, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyism, truckling, tufthunting, wheedling