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

In the first letters the lovers adulate each other and adorn each other with the most hyperbolic epithets, swearing eternal love and fidelity, and deluding each other in the most absurd manner.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel

Lady Feng was well alive to the fact that Madame Hsing was, by nature, simple and weak-minded, and that all she knew was to adulate Chia She so as to ensure her own safety.

From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly

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

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

From Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge

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

From Là-bas by Keene Wallace

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 Charles James Lever

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

Remember, my reader, that whosoever and whatsoever is blamed, abused, or flouted in this essay, is really being praised, lauded, and adulated to the skies by the Cretan critic.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 30, 1891 by Various

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

The worthlessness of much of the criticism lavished on Tennyson by his coterie of adulating friends may be judged from the fact that Arthur Hallam wrote to Tennyson that this poem was 'mighty pleasant.'

From The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson