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Adulator

Adulator \Ad"u*la`tor\, n. [L., fr. adulari: cf. F. adulateur.] A servile or hypocritical flatterer.
--Carlyle.

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adulator

n. One who lavishes excessive praises or flattery, one who adulates.

WordNet
adulator

n. a person who uses flattery [syn: flatterer]

Usage examples of "adulator".

Great surprise was painted on all the countenances, and the circle of adulators and suppliants which surrounded Monk an instant before, was enlarged by degrees, and ended by being lost in the large undulations of the crowd.

God damn it, here comes the one who gives the orders in the midst of the panic of office workers and the persistent adulators who proclaimed him the eternal one, all through the house he left the rocky trail of his blacksmith-oven wheeze, he disappeared into the hearing room like a fugitive lightning flash toward the private quarters, he went into the bedroom, shut the three crossbars, the three bolts, the three locks, and with his fingertips he took off the pants he was wearing that were soaked in shit.

The red lips of the Eurasian smiled upon her circle of adulators, but her eyes--her unfathomable eyes--followed every movement of the Greek.