adulatory

Example Sentences

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But she got adulatory national press for that gesture.

From Slate • Feb. 15, 2023

Their book has provoked strong reactions, adulatory and critical.

From Scientific American • Feb. 28, 2022

His prior reportage on the U.S. military, including a book focused on MacArthur that he later called "too adulatory," helped secure his access.

From Salon • Sep. 26, 2020

Duda’s once strong support, bolstered by adulatory coverage in public media, began to slip once restrictions were lifted and other candidates could campaign.

From Washington Times • Jun. 28, 2020

Unluckily for him, there was born in his time a Dauphin, and he wrote a little adulatory tale of the birth, and the editors of the Cabinet Appendix thanked him much for giving it them.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George