fawn
noun
a young deer, especially an unweaned one.
Example Sentences
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He’s posted about it fawningly on his Instagram page over the years.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2023
Last month, Ms. Kaili spoke fawningly about Qatar’s labor reforms ahead of the World Cup launch; she also visited Doha in November and praised the nation’s preparations for the sporting event.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
An interlude satirizing the stultifying fatuousness of the royal mission is followed by one that fawningly celebrates the magnificence of Diana deigning to speak to Welsh well-wishers.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2021
At the Olympics, he fawningly supplies police officers with cans of Coke.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 12, 2019
He then with great skill and supple tasteful gestures, which would have honoured a European danseuse, represented the monster now creeping forward fawningly, now rushing along to devour its prey.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie
