adulator
- 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
And she!—Has she been less contumelious, less annoyant, less tormenting?—His advocate, his abettor, his adulator, with me only she was scrupulous and severe.
From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas
"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 Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)
But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend that they always reason right about the means of promoting it.
From Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Reeves, Henry
