flattery

noun2

1. •
   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?
2. •
   An instance of excessive praise.

   • 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. — 1651