adulate

They use poetic, romantic language to adulate this criterion lota and refuse to use any other instrument, similar to seniors who reject CDs and insist that “everything sounds better on vinyl.”

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2012

There must be villains and heroes, nations to hate or to adulate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Is the planet so emaciated in human leadership--the Mother Teresas and Geraldine Ferraros--that we have to adulate the American dollar?

From Time Magazine Archive

Men were absorbed in passing events; and literary men generally pandered to the vile taste of the people, or stooped to adulate the monsters whom they feared.

From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John

But I came not to adulate: Your frankness I shall compensate By an avowal just as plain.

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry

He adulates Minke, whom he has betrayed, and in House of Glass, the last novel, the author's torment of this official hypocrite is lashing and relentless.

From Time Magazine Archive

Is it any wonder how the poor man adulates wealth, when those in high station—the great and titled of the earth—are so ready to worship and revere it!

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James

In the fourteenth century the Pope is already called 'dominus deus noster'—precisely the style in which Martial adulates Domitian.

From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph

And to think that the nineteenth century takes on airs and adulates itself.

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene

Mr Tomkinson said he missed the now adulated head coach after Wolves' game against Ipswich, so he was excited when his door staff told him on Sunday "the big man is coming".

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2025

“It’s a difficult moment for the monarchy because it’s going through this period of transition from being adulated as a default position to now being questioned and challenged in new ways,’’ Owens said.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

“He seizes his chance, works like crazy, and takes power, making himself anointed and adulated by this incredible circle of French bosses and intellectuals,” Gaspard Gantzer, a former classmate of Macron’s, has written.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 24, 2019

During our brief exchange, it was clear Plant didn’t want to be adulated — he didn’t need his ego stroked by a fawning fan.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2018

And it's a mighty good thing, I expect, that the adulated Miss Drusilla Grant did not know you felt that way about her coming to dine.

From The Heart of Arethusa by Fox, Frances Barton

The behaviour towards the European team during this week's practice rounds, held in a family-friendly atmosphere, has been largely respectful and adulating.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025

“Everything Cohen says about adulating, and then despising Trump, is bolstered and corroborated by massive other evidence.”

From Salon ● May 16, 2024

As master archer and adulating sidekick Kate Bishop, the lively Steinfeld crafts a performance of sharp contrasts opposite Jeremy Renner’s more serious-minded hero, Hawkeye/Clint Barton.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2021

This six-episode series is Steinfeld’s MCU origin story, and although she plays the adulating sidekick, she will probably see her status rise — and could potentially even take on the Hawkeye title herself.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2021

Whatever hopes may be entertained by Mr. O'Connell, his suggestions met with no sustainment and no response, save the empty echoes of an adulating press.

From The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848 by Doheny, Michael