adulate
Example Sentences
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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
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
There must be villains and heroes, nations to hate or to adulate.
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 Forel, Auguste
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
Vocabulary lists containing adulate
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