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adulatory
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adulatory \Ad"u*la*to*ry\, a. [L. adulatorius, fr. adulari: cf. OF. adulatoire.] Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address.
A mere rant of adulatory freedom.
--Burke.
Wiktionary
a. In the manner of adulation; overly flattering.
WordNet
adj. obsequiously complimentary; "they listened with flattering interest"
Usage examples of "adulatory".
Tsar whom, just a few years before, they had been hailing in adulatory terms for his intention to bring an end to serfdom.
The Federicos were impressed and adulatory, proposing toast after toast from the jeroboam of Mouton Cadet they had contributed to the meal.
Senate presented to the Emperor the result of the votes for hereditary succession, Francois de Neufchateau delivered an address to him, in which there was no want of adulatory expressions.
The coincidence of this festival with the Assumption gave rise to adulatory rodomontades of the most absurd description.
I was too awestruck to know fear, too adulatory in my awe, but I knew the open area of the beach was not safe, and I hurried away from Espinal and the motionless column of blackhearts.
Raphael, by being employed in adulatory allegory, in honour of Princes, as is to be seen in the works of Rubens and Le Brun at Paris, artists of great talents, which they were led to misapply, through the supreme vanity of Louis the Fourteenth.
It was given an adulatory write-up in a coveted New York Times book review.