This flashcard defines "adulate" as to flatter or admire someone in an excessive or slavish manner.
To flatter or admire someone excessively or slavishly.
| Front | adulate \AD-juh-layt or AD-yuh-layt\ |
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| Back | verb To flatter or admire slavishly. [Back-formation from adulation, from Latin adulari (to flatter, to fawn upon, like a dog wagging its tail). Earliest documented use: 1777; adulation is from around 1400.] "Media will continue to adulate and fawn before celebrities' feet, like abject courtiers in an imperial palace." - Kevin Myers; The Words 'Celebrity' and 'Ireland' Belong in the Same Sentence; Irish Independent (Dublin, Ireland); Sep 30, 2010. |
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