Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsequious flatterer; one who offers praise servilely.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A servile or hypocritical flatterer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
lavishes excessivepraises orflattery , one whoadulates .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who uses flattery
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Examples
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Am I, because I acknowledge all this, an 'adulator' of the present?
Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist louisproyect 2010
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In other words, there's everything a Pee-wee's Playhouse adulator would wish, including a secret word which when mentioned gets audience-participation cheers and applause.
David Finkle: First Nighter: The Pee-wee Herman Show , Elf and the Ubiquitous Inner Child David Finkle 2010
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In other words, there's everything a Pee-wee's Playhouse adulator would wish, including a secret word which when mentioned gets audience-participation cheers and applause.
David Finkle: First Nighter: The Pee-wee Herman Show , Elf and the Ubiquitous Inner Child David Finkle 2010
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He was a Greenspan adulator, who believed he'd abolished the cycle and believed bubbles were impossible to recognise, or to burst.
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He was a Greenspan adulator, who believed he'd abolished the cycle and believed bubbles were impossible to recognise, or to burst.
Brown's on the world stage, but his audience may not listen 2009
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Her old adulator, also, vanished from public places, while her young admirer and his father hovered about in them as usual, but spiritless, comfortless, and as if in the same search as himself.
Camilla 2008
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If you can believe it, Obama adulator Andrew Sullivan recently suggested that the Barack Obama campaign is "far too cocky for its own good."
Hubris Gets in the Way of Unity - Barack Forgets Hillary (Video) 2008
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And so is Venezuela run daily, a web of contradictions managed by incompetent people, while the boss is away wasting precious money as long as any adulator is crossing his path.
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And so is Venezuela run daily, a web of contradictions managed by incompetent people, while the boss is away wasting precious money as long as any adulator is crossing his path.
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A technocrat and intellectual hermit who read nothing after he began to write his own large works, Comte was the adulator of “science” as he understood it.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas WALTER SIMON 1968
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