Adulate

Word ADULATE
Character 7
Hyphenation ad u late
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Adulate"

What do we mean by adulate?

To praise or admire excessively; fawn on. transitive verb

To show feigned devotion to; flatter servilely.

To flatter in a servile way. transitive verb

To flatter effusively verb

Flatter in an obsequious manner verb

To flatter effusively.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Adulate

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The word "adulate" in example sentences

Decades later, while swaths of America adulate black sports stars, TV talk queens, and even the president, the question lingers whether and how badly the GOP wants to racially diversify, while maintaining its conservative base. ❋ Richard M. Benjamin (2010)

But I'm going to want more evidence than just the name before I buy that Marxists adulate Marx to the exception of all other thinkers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It seems like some critics who at one moment will adulate a neo-realistic picture for its unwavering depiction of an emotional truth will the next second decry a film for depicting violence in a graphic/real way. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But one cannot but wonder if by the values of Western Society today, it is proper to adulate a man who conducted war in such a brutal and ruthless manner as to slaughter large numbers of innocent Frenchmen. ❋ Rene Meertens (2010)

Moreover many who even professed that "all life is yoga" found it more convenient to adulate since it absolved them of their own need to realize. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2009)

Playwright and actor Joe Ascher believes he is the greatest artist of all time and expects his family to adulate him. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unfortunately, humankind finds it more convenient to rest in belief systems which they can adulate and have no need to emulate. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2009)

Your calling everyone a racist who does not like, support, adulate your candidate is therapy for you perhaps. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Look, Mike, you can adulate Fisk as much as you like but the Jews are not just going to lie down and be attacked by his friends and yours without resisting fairly vigorously - if necessary, even more vigorously than they have just done in Gaza. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The things is, 'Atonement' is exactly the kind of film that we shouldn't want to adulate, nor should we want it to be representative of the British film industry. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Unless we as a society change our patterns of hero worship, we court the danger of becoming what we adulate. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We are not an exemplary civilization which people admire and adulate. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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