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adulate

[ US /ˈædʒəˌɫeɪt/ ]
[ UK /ˈædjʊlˌe‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. flatter in an obsequious manner

How To Use adulate In A Sentence

  • No one seemed to realize he was a hero-to-be about to go on his first adventure and should have been greatly adulated.
  • Yet the show doesn't so much advocate ethical breaches, as it adulates the magic of courtroom oratory and ‘out of the box’ thinking.
  • Earnestness was a quality the mid-Victorians adulated above all others (which was precisely why Oscar Wilde was prepared to be so irreverent towards it in the 1890s).
  • Thespis, a satirical poem on the actors at Drury Lane, earned him the favour of David Garrick, whom he adulated.
  • Audiences identify with the vocalist or adulate the lead guitarist; they don't notice the bass guitarist.
  • Moreover many who even professed that "all life is yoga" found it more convenient to adulate since it absolved them of their own need to realize. Right to express one's convictions in religious terms
  • It is directed by Juliet Abrahamson to provide locals and visitors with a feast of music from near and far, not overlooking the choir of King's College, known and adulated globally.
  • As the opening titles read, ‘Madame de… was a very lovely, elegant and adulated woman.
  • Douglas Hay and Norma Landau's examination of the legal system of eighteenth-century England leads them neither to adulate nor castigate; rather they appear to chide.
  • He's little more than a glorified motivational speaker holding all the media in adulated enthral. Clinton challenges Obama to Lincoln-Douglas style debate
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