adulatory
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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To his credit, author Michael Scherer professes good intentions in featuring Kennedy in such an adulatory light: to help bridge some of the political division plaguing our country.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2025
But she got adulatory national press for that gesture.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2023
Their book has provoked strong reactions, adulatory and critical.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 28, 2022
In buying their stakes in the private company, venture investors ultimately valued Theranos at a putative $9 billion, which led to another wave of adulatory publicity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2022
Is it conceivable that two thousand lines of adulatory poetry could have been written to and of him, and no hint appear of incidents like these?
From Testimony of the Sonnets as to the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays and Poems by Johnson, Jesse
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