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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of adulate.

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Examples

  • He's little more than a glorified motivational speaker holding all the media in adulated enthral.

    Clinton challenges Obama to Lincoln-Douglas style debate 2008

  • At a time when much of his work was slavishly adulated, they caught his eye and appealed to his own sense of independence.

    Fanzine The End anthology is Liverpool's best-selling Christmas book 2011

  • There is a seductive quality here, because the joy of being loved, cared for, adulated, enjoyed as an attractive being, sexually and spiritually, is prepossessing for people the world over.

    Mitchell J. Rabin: The Ways of Love Mitchell J. Rabin 2012

  • Sadly, we don't wish we were writing better books, we wish we were better known, richer, more respected, adulated even, had more exposure or had what some other writer had.

    Lev Raphael: What Do Writers Want? Everything. Lev Raphael 2012

  • There is a seductive quality here, because the joy of being loved, cared for, adulated, enjoyed as an attractive being, sexually and spiritually, is prepossessing for people the world over.

    Mitchell J. Rabin: The Ways of Love Mitchell J. Rabin 2012

  • There is a seductive quality here, because the joy of being loved, cared for, adulated, enjoyed as an attractive being, sexually and spiritually, is prepossessing for people the world over.

    Mitchell J. Rabin: The Ways of Love Mitchell J. Rabin 2012

  • That is news to be adulated and spread world wide!! noel beltran

    What Obama's reading on the Vineyard 2009

  • Glamorous stage performers like Jane Hading, Lily Elsie and Billie Burke were adulated by male and female fans who bought millions of postcards with their images, read thousands of magazines that featured their 'private' lives, and, in the case of women especially, closely followed and often copied their every fashion move.

    Evelyne Politanoff: After Hats comes Staging Fashion at the Bard Graduate Center Evelyne Politanoff 2012

  • There is a seductive quality here, because the joy of being loved, cared for, adulated, enjoyed as an attractive being, sexually and spiritually, is prepossessing for people the world over.

    Mitchell J. Rabin: The Ways of Love Mitchell J. Rabin 2012

  • Glamorous stage performers like Jane Hading, Lily Elsie and Billie Burke were adulated by male and female fans who bought millions of postcards with their images, read thousands of magazines that featured their 'private' lives, and, in the case of women especially, closely followed and often copied their every fashion move.

    Evelyne Politanoff: After Hats comes Staging Fashion at the Bard Graduate Center Evelyne Politanoff 2012

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