adulator

Example Sentences

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But it's clear that he isn't the only celebrity for whom Twitter has changed the relationship between object of adulation and adulator.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bertie Charles Forbes, Scottish immigrant, glorifier of the U. S. businessman, adulator of successful Mr. XXX and potent Mr. PPP, turned suddenly, in the current issue of his Forbes magazine, and railed �against Henry Ford.

From Time Magazine Archive

But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend that they always reason right about the means of promoting it.

From Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Reeves, Henry

I fear that Virgil was harmed by the Georgican success, and became more than ever an adulator of the ruling powers.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various

The duke was his generous patron, and Dr. Preston his most servile adulator.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac