Significats de adulatory en anglès

In the subterranean passage this verse appears; adulatory it must be confessed:-

Every art of praise was tried, and every source of adulatory fiction was exhausted.

To censure all dedications as adulatory and servile, would discover rather envy than justice.

The second might not: Ben Stokes was (insert different adulatory adjective).

The young poet wrote a most adulatory composition to the Regent, setting forth his innocence.

The superior man is affable but not adulatory, the mean is adulatory but not affable.

He was now a plain Japanese business man, servile and adulatory in his patron's presence.

The first was disgraceful; the second was (insert adulatory adjective of choice from Roget).

Dr. Price, in this sermon, condemns very properly the practice of gross, adulatory addresses to kings.

The assembly rejected the adulatory proposal of M. *****; and in this it did right.

The coincidence of this festival with the Assumption gave rise to adulatory rodomontades of the most absurd description.

There have been times this season when that sentence might have ended instead with an adulatory exclamation mark.

The Master said, 'The superior man is affable, but not adulatory; the mean man is adulatory, but not affable.'

The most adulatory of his addresses is that in which he dedicates the State of Innocence to Mary of Modena.

The press note, one should note, had been composed to ensure the inclusion of some adulatory phrases in the first paragraph.

Before that there was veteran music writer Ray Coleman's Lennon: The Definitive Biography, published in 1984, which was respectful, going-on adulatory.