adulatory

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adulatory
Adjective
  • Chicharito also benefitted from his market placement in LA, in his case mainly due to the proximity to an adoring Mexican fanbase throughout Southern California.
    Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
  • In some cases, like his calls to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, Mr. Trump has promised changes that many of his most adoring fans in Europe have stopped well short of.
    Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Years of hagiographic media coverage and his immense social-media reach birthed legions of fanboys and nurtured a cult of personality.
    Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2025
  • Photo Gallery Feeling the heat, George accepts an offer to take the lead in a largely fictional and completely hagiographic biopic of (current) Egyptian President Al-Sisi.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • The brazen and aggressive manhandling of Senator Padilla by the Trump administration is a sickening disgrace.
    Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
  • The practice is one of a sickening array of battlefield mistreatments recorded on video either by Ukrainian surveillance drones or Russian servicemen and then circulated on social media.
    Andrew Carey, CNN Money, 28 July 2025
Adjective
  • The Social Security Administration sent a gushy, questionable email July 4 to millions of people collecting Social Security benefits and others.
    Susan Tompor, USA Today, 21 July 2025
  • That unspoken contract between gore-hungry viewers and the film is mostly forged by Christien Tinsley, the makeup effects artist whose gushy prosthetics are shown off at every turn.
    Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • One defense, beginning in the late eighteen-hundreds, was flypaper, sheets of which were coated on one side with an oleaginous substance that lured flies, then permanently trapped them.
    David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024
  • At any moment, the noodles might dissolve, the cheese topping burn, the dish collapse into a soggy, oleaginous mess.
    Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
Adjective
  • Previous research has shown that people with Parkinson’s have increased amounts of sebum — an oily, waxy substance with a distinctively musky odor — on the skin.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2025
  • But a flakey and oily scalp might be a sign of dandruff.
    Jessica Kasparian, SELF, 17 July 2025
Adjective
  • The free-range pork chop from Washington’s Pure Country Farm gets more char but remains unctuous, a rarity for such a lean cut.
    Leilani Marie Labong, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2025
  • Martin studied under and is basically a Temu Alan Grant, while the unctuous Friend oozes with corporate evil.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Sadly, its five-year academic record is weak but can be turned around under stronger leadership that leverages the benefits of modern infrastructure and fulsome resources.
    Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2025
  • It was crafted for robust and fulsome flavor from start to finish.
    Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 2 Aug. 2025
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“Adulatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adulatory. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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