adulation
noun
excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
self-adulation
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a word derived from
adulation.
Example Sentences
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It would be one thing if the lesson were that his lovingly designed handicrafts proved more rewarding than the magic mountain of self-adulation represented by the “12 Days” tree, but nope.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
It obliterates the despair that once defined their lives and replaces it with feelings of ecstatic self-importance and self-adulation, a state of being outside the self.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2020
He paused the self-adulation long enough to ask: “How am I doing?”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2019
Self-definition can cross easily into self-satisfaction, heading right toward self-adulation, and what is revealed unwittingly may be truest.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2010
Simply to feel that it is one's rightful portion is the best proof that it is not, and leads to cockiness, windiness, and self-adulation, with attendant loss of the sympathy of other men.
From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense
