Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To praise or admire excessively; fawn on.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To show feigned devotion to; flatter servilely.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To flatter in a servile way.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
flatter effusively
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb flatter in an obsequious manner
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Decades later, while swaths of America adulate black sports stars, TV talk queens, and even the president, the question lingers whether and how badly the GOP wants to racially diversify, while maintaining its conservative base.
Richard M. Benjamin: GOP Strategy to Re-Take Congress: "A Heaping Plate of Soul" Richard M. Benjamin 2010
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But one cannot but wonder if by the values of Western Society today, it is proper to adulate a man who conducted war in such a brutal and ruthless manner as to slaughter large numbers of innocent Frenchmen.
From Churchill’s defeat of France to Churchill’s alliance with France Rene Meertens 2010
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But I'm going to want more evidence than just the name before I buy that Marxists adulate Marx to the exception of all other thinkers.
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Decades later, while swaths of America adulate black sports stars, TV talk queens, and even the president, the question lingers whether and how badly the GOP wants to racially diversify, while maintaining its conservative base.
Richard M. Benjamin: GOP Strategy to Re-Take Congress: "A Heaping Plate of Soul" 2010
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It seems like some critics who at one moment will adulate a neo-realistic picture for its unwavering depiction of an emotional truth will the next second decry a film for depicting violence in a graphic/real way.
Sundance Movie Review/Video Blog: Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me | /Film 2010
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Moreover many who even professed that "all life is yoga" found it more convenient to adulate since it absolved them of their own need to realize.
Right to express one's convictions in religious terms Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Playwright and actor Joe Ascher believes he is the greatest artist of all time and expects his family to adulate him.
The Embers-Hyatt Bass « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009
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Unfortunately, humankind finds it more convenient to rest in belief systems which they can adulate and have no need to emulate.
Archive 2009-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Your calling everyone a racist who does not like, support, adulate your candidate is therapy for you perhaps.
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Look, Mike, you can adulate Fisk as much as you like but the Jews are not just going to lie down and be attacked by his friends and yours without resisting fairly vigorously - if necessary, even more vigorously than they have just done in Gaza.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
fbharjo commented on the word adulate
adulate, o so great
May 12, 2008