adulate
verb (used with object)
to show excessive admiration or devotion to; flatter or admire servilely.
adulating
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present participleof adulate.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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The behaviour towards the European team during this week's practice rounds, held in a family-friendly atmosphere, has been largely respectful and adulating.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
“Everything Cohen says about adulating, and then despising Trump, is bolstered and corroborated by massive other evidence.”
From Salon ● May 16, 2024
As master archer and adulating sidekick Kate Bishop, the lively Steinfeld crafts a performance of sharp contrasts opposite Jeremy Renner’s more serious-minded hero, Hawkeye/Clint Barton.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2021
This six-episode series is Steinfeld’s MCU origin story, and although she plays the adulating sidekick, she will probably see her status rise — and could potentially even take on the Hawkeye title herself.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2021
Then, too, thank God, he has never followed out, in his novels, the theories enunciated in his magazine articles, adulating the intrusion of positivism upon art.
From Là-bas by Keene Wallace
