Definition of adulate in English:
adulate
verb
[with object] praise (someone) excessively: he was adulated in the press
More example sentences
- Louis's entry, then Conde's was a standard celebration of royal majesty, ‘an occasion to adulate the royal person
- As the opening titles read, ‘Madame de… was a very lovely, elegant and adulated woman.
- Anyway, since the '70s, when folks started adulating the '50s, the nostalgia industry has learned to mine and resell the best stuff from 20 years ago.
- Audiences identify with the vocalist or adulate the lead guitarist; they don't notice the bass guitarist.
- Yet the show doesn't so much advocate ethical breaches, as it adulates the magic of courtroom oratory and ‘out of the box’ thinking.
- It is the antithesis of the still-prevailing Greek worldview which adulates logic and the laws of nature as absolute.
- No one seemed to realize he was a hero-to-be about to go on his first adventure and should have been greatly adulated.
- It is directed by Juliet Abrahamson to provide locals and visitors with a feast of music from near and far, not overlooking the choir of King's College, known and adulated globally.
- Earnestness was a quality the mid-Victorians adulated above all others (which was precisely why Oscar Wilde was prepared to be so irreverent towards it in the 1890s).
- Thespis, a satirical poem on the actors at Drury Lane, earned him the favour of David Garrick, whom he adulated.
- Probably no leader in world history has been so despised, adulated, and feared as Adolf Hitler.
- The Romans adulated and revered the god of conquest, Mars, son of Jupiter.
- People will adulate - and imitate - writers, philosophers, political theorists, and college professors without subjecting their behavior to any moral scrutiny whatsoever.
- Douglas Hay and Norma Landau's examination of the legal system of eighteenth-century England leads them neither to adulate nor castigate; rather they appear to chide.
- No school gyms of adulating audiences on their feet to cheer the genius, no comic book figures dropping bon mots could press those keys.
- There was supposed to be an adulating throng hanging from every rail, trumpet-blaring heralds lined side by side and perhaps even angels smiling down from above.
Derivatives
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adulator
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noun Example sentences
- In the crush at Sardi's, a tiny figure broke through the crowd of adulators to tell Rodgers: ‘This show of yours will run forever.’
- No one likes a smarmy adulator.
- That many in the eighteenth century actively resisted what seemed to them classical cultural imperialism, something supported by contemporaries they considered spineless adulators and imitators, may be less widely understood.
- I told Graves I was fan club president, chief of many adulators.
Origin
early 17th century (earlier ( late Middle English) as adulator): from Latin adulat- 'fawned on', from the verb adulari.
For editors and proofreaders
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Definition of adulate in:
- US English dictionary
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