Literary and rare term for insincere praise or sycophantic behavior. Not used in everyday conversation; modern equivalents include お世辞 or 追従.
His words are nothing but flattery and not his true feelings.
Do not be misled by sycophants.
Also means flattery or sycophancy, but more common than 便佞. 追従 is used in modern Japanese, while 便佞 is archaic and rarely encountered.
flattery; adulation; sycophancy
Rare kanji spelling; the word itself is literary and uncommon.
Variant kanji form; even less common than 便佞.
From Chinese 便佞, describing facility in ingratiating or flattering speech; 便 carries the sense of verbal facility and 佞 that of flattery.