adulate
verb (used with object)
to show excessive admiration or devotion to; flatter or admire servilely.
adulator
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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
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 Thomas Holcroft
But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend that they would always reason right, about the means of promoting it.
From American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville
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
"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 Anthony M. (Anthony Mario) Ludovici
