fawning

• “It irked them that Alexander did not mock what they called my fawning barbarian ways, but chose me to compliment his guests of honor.”

  The Persian Boy

• “I'm SO not usually one of those Austin fawning types.”

  Day in the Life of an Idiot

• “But I guess Bill Clinton's psychotic need for publicity, approval, and fawning is a little more important than the safety of Americans abroad ..... who are now in MORE danger as a result of this stupid publicity stunt.”

  North Korea feels 'owed' directs talks with U.S., Richardson says

• “Perhaps this dim-bulb mayor, and the MSM in fawning over Klepto Deb, are confusing pragmatist with pilferer or purloiner or maybe larcenist.”

  Sound Politics: What does "pragmatist" mean?

• “The Greek is literally said of dogs wagging the tail in fawning on one.”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “These profiles could hardly be called fawning or even admiring.”

  The Huffington Post: Peter Dreier: Why Does Anyone Take Andrew Breitbart Seriously?

• “Their conspicuous consumption was glamorized by a media that coined fawning new terms to describe them, like "masters of the universe," but forgot relevant old terms, like "robber baron" and "vulgarian.”

  Marty Kaplan: The Upside of Outrage

• “On his next tour, when it came to all the "progress" training the Iraqi army, let Rod Nordland, the author of that "fawning" - his retrospective adjective, not mine - Newsweek cover piece of 2004, suggest an obituary, as he did in 2007:”

  Get out now.

• “I recall her fawning over him some years ago when he did some extra-special marriage+ thingy.”

  "Mike Huckabee has leaped ahead..."

• “If I were attentive, I was called fawning, if refractory, an obstinate mule, and like a mule I received their censure on my loaded back.”

  Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman

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