fawningly

Example Sentences

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He’s posted about it fawningly on his Instagram page over the years.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2023

An interlude satirizing the stultifying fatuousness of the royal mission is followed by one that fawningly celebrates the magnificence of Diana deigning to speak to Welsh well-wishers.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2021

But to get to a healthier, more entertaining place, the American Theater Wing and the Broadway League, the organizations that present the event, have to stop favoring the commercial side so fawningly.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2021

At the Olympics, he fawningly supplies police officers with cans of Coke.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 12, 2019

“You here, Serge?” he cried; and this time there was an answer, but it was made by the dog, which approached him fawningly and uttered a low, whining, discontented howl.

From Marcus: the Young Centurion by Fenn, George Manville