adulate
verb (used with object)
to show excessive admiration or devotion to; flatter or admire servilely.
adulated
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past participleof adulate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof adulate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
adulateverb (used with object)to show excessive admiration or devotion to; flatter or admire servilely.
Example Sentences
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Mr Tomkinson said he missed the now adulated head coach after Wolves' game against Ipswich, so he was excited when his door staff told him on Sunday "the big man is coming".
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2025
“He seizes his chance, works like crazy, and takes power, making himself anointed and adulated by this incredible circle of French bosses and intellectuals,” Gaspard Gantzer, a former classmate of Macron’s, has written.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 24, 2019
Moreover, in real life, people who possess technological knowledge, primarily the scions of Silicon Valley, are widely adulated, viewed as heroes who will inherently change society for the better.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2019
The egg yolk was perfectly gooey, but the egg white was too thick and adulated with too much soy sauce and other seasoning.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2018
None now were by to soothe, to sustain, the admired, the adulated stranger.
From Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
