adulatory
Example Sentences
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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
His prior reportage on the U.S. military, including a book focused on MacArthur that he later called "too adulatory," helped secure his access.
From Salon • Sep. 26, 2020
That the poet sought his patronage need not be concealed; and if he used a little flattery in doing so, we must make allowance for the adulatory instinct of the tuneful tribe.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
