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My job is to cover you, not fawn over you or rip you — just report on you.
FOX NEWS CUTS AWAY FROM KAYLEIGH MCENANY NEWS CONFERENCE AFTER SHE ALLEGES VOTE FRAUD WITH NO EVIDENCEELAHE IZADI, SARAH ELLISONNOVEMBER 9, 2020WASHINGTON POSTThey all immediately got up to make room for him, and handed him a chair in a manner the most servile and fawning.
TRAVELS THROUGH THE SOUTH OF FRANCE AND THE INTERIOR OF PROVINCES OF PROVENCE AND LANGUEDOC IN THE YEARS 1807 AND 1808LT-COL. PINKNEYThe principles of liberty were the scoff of every grinning courtier, and the Anathema Maranatha of every fawning dean.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTERThere was nothing fawning in his attitude; he conducted himself with the dignity of a fallen monarch.
FOUR AMERICAN INDIANSEDSON L. WHITNEYMr. Fogg, in the presence of Julius Marston, was properly obsequious, but not a bit fawning.
BLOW THE MAN DOWNHOLMAN DAYAgain he calls upon his fawning admirers to annihilate Christianity, to hunt it down, to vilify it, to ruin it.
THE WAR UPON RELIGIONREV. FRANCIS A. CUNNINGHAMThe fawning of Society begins to pall after a week's experience of its cloying sweetness.
MR. PUNCH'S HISTORY OF MODERN ENGLAND VOL. IV OF IV.CHARLES L. GRAVESThe Merle twin at this momentous meal sat as one enthroned, receiving tribute from fawning subjects.
THE WRONG TWINHARRY LEON WILSONIt takes courage for a young man to stand firmly erect while others are bowing and fawning for praise and power.
HOW TO SUCCEEDORISON SWETT MARDENMarina's obvious and fawning devotion to the older man seemed to bounce off Ansaldo without effect.
THE FIVE ARROWSALLAN CHASEWORDS RELATED TO FAWNING
- adulatory
- appreciative
- approbative
- approbatory
- approving
- celebrating
- commendatory
- congratulatory
- courtly
- encomiastic
- encomiastical
- eulogistic
- fair-spoken
- fawning
- highly favorable
- honeyed
- honoring
- laudatory
- panegyrical
- plauditory
- polite
- praiseful
- respectful
- sycophantic
- unctuous
- well-wishing
- with high praise
- with highest recommendation
- adulation
- applause
- approbation
- blandishment
- blarney
- bootlicking
- cajolery
- commendation
- encomium
- eulogy
- eyewash
- fawning
- flattering
- flummery
- fulsomeness
- gallantry
- hokum
- honeyed words
- ingratiation
- jive
- laud
- mush
- obsequiousness
- palaver
- plaudits
- pretty speech
- puffery
- snow
- snow job
- soft words
- soft-soap
- stroking
- sweet-talk
- sycophancy
- toadyism
- tribute
- unctuousness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.