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

It is not that I adulate the people: Without me, there are demagogues enough, And infidels, to pull down every steeple, And set up in their stead some proper stuff.

From Don Juan by George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron

Great heavens, what is there to adulate in me?

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert

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 Charles James Lever

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

From Là-bas by Keene Wallace

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

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

Moreover, in real life, people who possess technological knowledge, primarily the scions of Silicon Valley, are widely adulated, viewed as heroes who will inherently change society for the better.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2019

Critics of the 18th century adulated the Bolognese beyond all reason or toleration; he is now regarded as commonplace in mind and invention, lacking any innate ideality, though undoubtedly a forcible, resolute and learned executant.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" 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

But when Candar stepped out into the spaceport, instead of meeting his adulating subjects, a very determined group of his own soldiers stopped him.

From Evil Out of Onzar by Mark Ganes