What is "fawning"

Usage examples of "fawning".

Like all girls, you spend your time fawning over the harridans who have established themselves as arbiters of taste.

The sand-diviner of the red bazaar, slipping like a reptile under the waving arms and between the furious bodies of the beggars, stood up before her with a smile on his wounded face, stretched out to her his emaciated hands with a fawning, yet half satirical, gesture of desire.

But the Diviner stopped him with a gesture, and in a fawning yet imperious voice called out something to the Count.

He graced Montero with a fawning, ingratiating smile, ignoring Delanie completely.

Yet these hard lessons proved useful, for they taught me to mistrust the impudent sycophants who openly flatter their dupes, and never to rely upon the offers made by fawning flatterers.

He was depicted by the satirical cartoonist Cruikshank as sitting on a fat cushion amidst the splendid chinoiserie of one of his many saloons, holding court while fawning courtiers, all in kimonos, bowed to him.

Guy down through the Heaviside layer, but forced him into fawning agreement.

All evening he had watched her and those fawning on her--Babcott towering over all the others, then resplendent Pallidar and Marlowe trying to ease him out of the inner circle--relishing his secrets and, for the moment, the life within a life that he led.

Finally, having had enough of the fawning, resentful Septs, Phoran sent for Avar to go riding with him.

Yet these hard lessons proved useful, for they taught me to mistrust the impudent sycophants who openly flatter their dupes, and never to rely upon the offers made by fawning flatterers.

You love battle and blood and slaughtering your enemies, so take your fawning Myrmidons and go!

Here - discounting the trainees - his peers were fawning on him, but his teachers were doing their icily gracious best to get him to give up and drop out of their lessons - except for his armsmaster.

Shame on the coward, caitiff hands That smote their Lord or with a kiss Betrayed him to the rabble-rout Of fawning priests--no friends of his.

If its funds were lavished in patronage and show, instead of being honestly expended in providing small annuities for hard-working people who have themselves contributed to its funds - if its management were intrusted to people who could by no possibility know anything about it, instead of being invested in plain, business, practical hands - if it hoarded when it ought to spend - if it got by cringing and fawning what it never deserved, I might possibly impress you very much by my indignation.

A certain amount of breeding was necessary to refine dogs from the rough, tough, original stock to the smelly, fawning, dribbling morons* of uncertain temper that we see today After considerable heated debate, the Committee wishes it to be made clear that this statement should not be taken to include, in order, small white terriers with an IQ of 150, faithful old mongrels who may be smelly but apl)~irelitly we love him, and huge shaggy wheezing St Bernards who consume more protein in a day than some humans see in a year) but understand every word we say, no, really, and are like one of the family~,.