adulatory

Example Sentences

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To his credit, author Michael Scherer professes good intentions in featuring Kennedy in such an adulatory light: to help bridge some of the political division plaguing our country.

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2025

The emerging trend may disappoint overseas viewers, dulling the uniqueness of the official media’s adulatory coverage of Mr. Kim and life in North Korea.

From Washington Times • Aug. 30, 2023

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

"The benefits conferred by Rome upon mankind" were the theme of adulatory addresses everywhere, to which, however, it would be unjust to deny some sincerity.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. by Lodge, Henry Cabot