Definition of fawning
: seeking or used to seek approval or favor by means of flattery
- … they are excellent emblems of fawning yet fickle fandom …
- —Thomas Boswell
- He's sitting in a shaded pavillion, surrounded by a dozen fawning politicians …
- —Barbara Crossette
- I was astonished that Frost could've read the poem as anything but an act of fawning servility.
- —Tobias Wolff
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fawningly
adverb-
- Not since the glory days of the glossy movie fan mags have stars been viewed so uncritically, so fawningly.
- —Roger Ebert
