adulatory
Britishadjective
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How New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani encourages creators’ adulatory and often viral videos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
His barbaric instinct overcame him, and seizing his spear he executed a kind of war-dance around us, bestowing upon us the most adulatory phrases of the Dagomba vocabulary.
From The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason by William Le Queux
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