fawningly
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“You’ve had nine hits this year,” she purred fawningly at the singer-songwriter Michael Bolton on one of her British TV shows.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2023
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
At the Olympics, he fawningly supplies police officers with cans of Coke.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 12, 2019
The children noisier and ruder than ever, her father grown grayer and more wrinkled, her stepmother, shrill of tongue and acid of temper as of yore, but fawningly obsequious to her.
From A Terrible Secret by May Agnes Fleming
