adulatory
Britishadjective
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How New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani encourages creators’ adulatory and often viral videos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
To his credit, author Michael Scherer professes good intentions in featuring Kennedy in such an adulatory light: to help bridge some of the political division plaguing our country.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2025
But she got adulatory national press for that gesture.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2023
Their book has provoked strong reactions, adulatory and critical.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 28, 2022
Hallam has caught at some phrases couched in the adulatory style, 'so much,' Hallam allows, 'among the vices of the age, that the want of it passed for rudeness.'
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing
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