adulation

Definition

Flattery; fulsome praise.

Etymology

From French adulation, from Latin adulātio (“flattery”).

Example Sentences

• "He was uncomfortable with the adulation from his fans."
• "Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so."
• "It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; [...]"

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