Sentence example with the word 'adulatory'

adulatory

Definition adj. obsequiously complimentary

Last update: September 9, 2015


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Politicions give adulatory speeches before elections.   [Please select]

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The worst blot on his fair fame is his adulatory congratulation of the murderous usurper Phocas; though his correspondence with the Frankish queen Brunhilda, and the series of letters to and concerning the renegade monk Venantius also present problems which his admirers find difficult of solution.   [Please select]

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Such was the adulatory language addressed by the English people to the son of the king they had murdered, and to a man noted for every frivolity and vice that could degrade a sovereign.   [Please select]

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Socrates' profession of obstetric art is good philosophy; and his finding that word "cookery," and "adulatory art," for rhetoric, in the Gorgias, does us a substantial service still.   [Please select]

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Living in habits of intimacy with princes and cardinals, he never addressed them in adulatory language, but talked and acted like a nobleman of nature, whose inborn and superior greatness could be tested only by the ages.   [Please select]

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And, as the Rothschilds and the Fuggera made money for grateful kings and popes, so in a democratic age, Eldon Parr became the benefactor of an adulatory public.   [Please select]

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It is, in form, necessarily a panegyric, as high-flown and adulatory as such performances in those days were bound to be.   [Please select]

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