adoring

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These uber-rich simpletons simply (literally ..) "say all of the correct things" when surrounded by the free "liberal 527" known as the adoring

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  1. An act of adoration, or one of homage paid by a lover. And soft adorings from their loves receive. Keats, Eve of St. Agnes, vi.

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  • But this all received far less attention than the controversy over whether the Chinese women gymnasts were still in elementary school and the NBC-adoring world of beach volleyball. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • It is ironic that his adoring, idolatrous idiots; his blubbering bunch of blathering baboons (not a racial reference here, it is not the emperor to whom I refer); his psycho sycophants fail to see that their emperor is enacting the WORST of evil Bush's policies in greater magnitude.
  • Mercifully for the baseball-adoring public in Pulaski, the anxiety didn't last long. —  The Roanoke Times: Home page
  • These uber-rich simpletons simply (literally ..) "say all of the correct things" when surrounded by the free "liberal 527" known as the adoring —  Capitol Hill Coffee House
  • But, perhaps in an attempt to deflect unwanted questions, Jackson's people had invited the general public, ensuring the media was outnumbered by the kind of adoring fans that might turn on anyone impertinent enough to raise such non-idolatory subjects as surgery or legal prosecutions. —  Telegraph Blogs
 

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