adulate
verb (used with object)
to show excessive admiration or devotion to; flatter or admire servilely.
adulator
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a word derived from
adulate.
Example Sentences
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But it's clear that he isn't the only celebrity for whom Twitter has changed the relationship between object of adulation and adulator.
From Time Magazine Archive
I fear that Virgil was harmed by the Georgican success, and became more than ever an adulator of the ruling powers.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various
He was the victim of an adulator of the people!
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
"Nobody who knows anything about it says that," he observed, as if he were stating an interesting axiomatic principle and without a trace of the leer of the adulator.
From Too Old for Dolls A Novel by Anthony M. (Anthony Mario) Ludovici
No base adulator, No slanderous traitor, Empoisons the plain.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
