Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by adulation; fulsomely flattering; servilely praising: as, an adulatory address.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering.
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- adjective In the manner of
adulation ; overlyflattering .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective obsequiously complimentary
Etymologies
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Examples
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They are also feeble cultures that endulge this kind of adulatory abuse, in that they know that their hatred has no consequences to them personally, because Americans are more likely to behave like thoughtful adults that they would.
Atlantic Review 2009
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I cannot find a CBBC article devoted to George W. Bush's first inauguration, but I am pretty sure the tone was not as adulatory as the page for Barack Obama is.
You're never too young to be indoctrinated by the BBC Not a sheep 2009
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Before an adulatory crowd, the beard - and Homburg-sporting LaMontagne spends the whole of tonight's show buried deep in the shadows to the side of his four-piece band, looking like a man who would be far happier singing from the wings.
Ray LaMontagne Ian Gittins 2010
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Hardly surprising, given the generally adulatory tone of many (if not most) newspaper columns and reports.
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A protest will pose a severe challenge to the prince and his bride, the Duchess of Cambridge, on their first official overseas tour together, a trip marked so far by large, adulatory crowds in Ottawa and universally benign media coverage.
French-Canadian separatists to protest during Prince William's visit to Quebec 2011
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I wonder how adulatory the BBC coverage will be, no scrub that I think I know the answer to that one.
Delusional Brown returns Not a sheep 2009
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In the most recent issue of The Jewish Quarterly, Tadzio Koelb makes a similar point concerning the adulatory reception of Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française:
Book Reviewing 2010
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I'm not a huge fan of Sarah Palin, but my feelings for her are practically adulatory compared to what I feel for Levi.
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A protest will pose a severe challenge to the prince and his bride, the Duchess of Cambridge, on their first official overseas tour together, a trip marked so far by large, adulatory crowds in Ottawa and universally benign media coverage.
French-Canadian separatists to protest during Prince William's visit to Quebec 2011
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