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The answer ADULATE has 55 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of adulate in various dictionaries:
verb - flatter in an obsequious manner
verb - to praise excessively
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| Put on a pedestal |
| Fawn over |
| Flatter servilely |
| Admire to a fault |
| Flatter too much |
| Praise to the skies |
| Not merely like |
| Fall all over |
| Fancy to a fault |
| Admire servilely |
| Possible Dictionary Clues |
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| To praise or admire excessively fawn on. |
| praise (someone) excessively. |
| flatter in an obsequious manner |
| to admire or praise someone very much, especially when this is more than is deserved: |
| Praise (someone) excessively. |
| Adulate might refer to |
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Flattery (also called adulation or blandishment) is the act of giving excessive compliments, generally for the purpose of ingratiating oneself with the subject. It is used in pick-up lines when attempting to initiate romantic courtship. * Historically, flattery has been used as a standard form of discourse when addressing a king or queen. In the Renaissance, it was a common practice among writers to flatter the reigning monarch, as Edmund Spenser flattered Queen Elizabeth I in The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare flattered King James I in Macbeth and Niccolò Machiavelli flattered Lorenzo II de' Medici in The Prince. * Most associations with flattery, however, are negative. Negative descriptions of flattery range at least as far back in history as The Bible. In the Divine Comedy, Dante depicts flatterers wading in human excrement, stating that their words were the equivalent of excrement, in the second bolgia of 8th Circle of Hell. * An insincere flatterer is a stock character in many lite |