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
"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
The duke was his generous patron, and Dr. Preston his most servile adulator.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
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 Henry Reeves
No base adulator, No slanderous traitor, Empoisons the plain.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
