adulatory

• But messianic moralism, quite apart from its palpable political consequences, is smug, self-righteous, self-adulatory, and, above all, empty. —  Kafila
• This is a dangerous stratagem of denying all legitimacy to the opposition from the intellectuals, of making it "smug, self-righteous, self-adulatory, and, above all, empty". —  Kafila
• I haven't read any of their PD pieces, but this is certainly fairly adulatory: —  Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52
• Vigorous, therefore, as was his onslaught, its effect soon passed by; and when on the accession of James, the statute which so long disgraced our penal code was enacted, as the adulatory tribute of all parties, against which no honest voice was raised, to the known opinions of the monarch, Scot became too unfashionable to be seen on the tables of the great or in the libraries of the learned. —  Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster
• That the poet sought his patronage need not be concealed; and if he used a little flattery in doing so, we must make allowance for the adulatory instinct of the tuneful tribe. —  The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch

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