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adulatory

ADJECTIVE
  1. obsequiously complimentary
    they listened with flattering interest

How To Use adulatory In A Sentence

  • One effort was an adulatory poem, Le Siecle de Louis le Grand, in which he claimed that Louis XIV's world equalled, and surpassed, that of the ancient world.
  • I'm not a huge fan of Sarah Palin, but my feelings for her are practically adulatory compared to what I feel for Levi. Johnston says Palin lost his vote
  • She's receiving adulatory applause from the audience, and has a really exciting pyrotechnic display too.
  • He thoroughly deserved his long obituary, the tone of which is almost adulatory in parts, even allowing for the deferential standards of the time.
  • 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
  • America had Shirley Temple but Britain had ‘the little princesses, the darlings of the Empire,’ as an adulatory press described them.
  • The tone here is adulatory and uncritical but the photographs alone will delight those who worship at Gandhi's shrine.
  • The reception in the hall, and in the press the day after, was almost universally adulatory.
  • Check out this slightly less adulatory leader from the selfsame paper.
  • I had read a Reader's Digest collection of adulatory articles about the great man.
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