fawningly
Example Sentences
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“You’ve had nine hits this year,” she purred fawningly at the singer-songwriter Michael Bolton on one of her British TV shows.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 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
Tesla was replying, not so fawningly, the bay beneath his soft words mastering his sycophantic tones.
From Erik Dorn by Ben Hecht
