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adulate

[ US /ˈædʒəˌɫeɪt/ ]
[ UK /ˈædjʊlˌe‍ɪt/ ]
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  1. flatter in an obsequious manner

How To Use adulate In A Sentence

  • 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
  • He's little more than a glorified motivational speaker holding all the media in adulated enthral. Clinton challenges Obama to Lincoln-Douglas style debate
  • It is the antithesis of the still-prevailing Greek worldview which adulates logic and the laws of nature as absolute.
  • 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
  • Glamorous stage performers like Jane Hading, Lily Elsie and Billie Burke were adulated by male and female fans who bought millions of postcards with their images, read thousands of magazines that featured their 'private' lives, and, in the case of women especially, closely followed and often copied their every fashion move. Evelyne Politanoff: After Hats comes Staging Fashion at the Bard Graduate Center
  • At a time when much of his work was slavishly adulated, they caught his eye and appealed to his own sense of independence. Fanzine The End anthology is Liverpool's best-selling Christmas book
  • The Romans adulated and revered the god of conquest, Mars, son of Jupiter.
  • Louis's entry, then Conde's was a standard celebration of royal majesty, ‘an occasion to adulate the royal person
  • Probably no leader in world history has been so despised, adulated, and feared as Adolf Hitler.
  • Sadly, we don't wish we were writing better books, we wish we were better known, richer, more respected, adulated even, had more exposure or had what some other writer had. Lev Raphael: What Do Writers Want? Everything.
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