fawning
IPA: fˈɔnɪŋ
noun
- Servile flattery.
adjective
- Seeking favor by way of flattery; flattering, servile.
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Examples of "fawning" in Sentences
- I'm SO not usually one of those Austin fawning types.
- These profiles could hardly be called fawning or even admiring.
- The Greek is literally said of dogs wagging the tail in fawning on one.
- I recall her fawning over him some years ago when he did some extra-special marriage+ thingy.
- It irked them that Alexander did not mock what they called my fawning barbarian ways, but chose me to compliment his guests of honor.
- Perhaps this dim-bulb mayor, and the MSM in fawning over Klepto Deb, are confusing pragmatist with pilferer or purloiner or maybe larcenist.
- Their conspicuous consumption was glamorized by a media that coined fawning new terms to describe them, like "masters of the universe," but forgot relevant old terms, like "robber baron" and "vulgarian."
- But I guess Bill Clinton's psychotic need for publicity, approval, and fawning is a little more important than the safety of Americans abroad ..... who are now in MORE danger as a result of this stupid publicity stunt.
- On his next tour, when it came to all the "progress" training the Iraqi army, let Rod Nordland, the author of that "fawning" - his retrospective adjective, not mine - Newsweek cover piece of 2004, suggest an obituary, as he did in 2007:
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