as in adoring
reflecting great admiration or devotion a movie fan's worshipful stare upon finally meeting her idol a teacher surrounded by worshipful little children

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Recent Examples on the Web Do all those cameos make the series feel authentic, or overly worshipful? Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2024 The first is that Scalia’s dissent was, well, written by Scalia, a conservative icon who many of the Court’s Republicans speak of in almost worshipful tones. Ian Millhiser, Vox, 25 June 2024 The ensemble’s instinct was a kind of worshipful response, but zen-master Uchida would not have that. Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024 There’s also the matter of the movie’s main villain, Baba Shakti — a white-haired ultranationalist power broker who whips worshipful mobs into a frenzy and who may have looked a little too much like India’s prime minister Narendra Modi for Netflix. Ty Burr, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for worshipful 

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“Worshipful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worshipful. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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