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
The emerging trend may disappoint overseas viewers, dulling the uniqueness of the official media’s adulatory coverage of Mr. Kim and life in North Korea.
From Washington Times • Aug. 30, 2023
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
The assembly rejected the adulatory proposal of M.�*****; and in this it did right.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron
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