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fawningly



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In black leather pants, he dances across the stage, flirting with the crowd with as much ingratiation as the camera fawningly displays toward him.

From New York Times Jun. 30, 2023

He’s posted about it fawningly on his Instagram page over the years.

From Slate Jan. 13, 2023

An interlude satirizing the stultifying fatuousness of the royal mission is followed by one that fawningly celebrates the magnificence of Diana deigning to speak to Welsh well-wishers.

From Washington Post Nov. 17, 2021

At the Olympics, he fawningly supplies police officers with cans of Coke.

From The New Yorker Dec. 12, 2019

Well, say no more about it, Sir Luke," said Jem, fawningly; "I knows I owes you my life, and I thank you for it.

From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison




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