adulate
verb (used with object)
to show excessive admiration or devotion to; flatter or admire servilely.
adulates
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present tense formof adulate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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He adulates Minke, whom he has betrayed, and in House of Glass, the last novel, the author's torment of this official hypocrite is lashing and relentless.
From Time Magazine Archive
Is it any wonder how the poor man adulates wealth, when those in high station—the great and titled of the earth—are so ready to worship and revere it!
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever
And to think that the nineteenth century takes on airs and adulates itself.
From Là-bas by Keene Wallace
In the fourteenth century the Pope is already called 'dominus deus noster'—precisely the style in which Martial adulates Domitian.
From Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge
