fawning

Example Sentences

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The correspondence shows Karp, a consigliere to NFL owners and the head of Citigroup, thanking Epstein with fawning emails for having him to one of his dinner parties.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Proxmire became addicted to the fawning press attention he got from caricaturing serious scientific research as ludicrous.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2025

The first hour-and-forty-five minutes should have just featured the effusive fawning praise from Cabinet members and self-congratulations parading as insight from Donny.

From Salon • Aug. 29, 2025

The BBC has previously investigated how Jhaj was able to hire hundreds of children to act as his fawning fans at a fake film premiere in London's Leicester Square in 2023.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2025

“You should have heard yourself, fawning on him, talking to him, singing with him, oh gods, all night; you should have heard yourself!”

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury