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Definition of Adulator
1. Noun. A person who uses flattery.
Generic synonyms: Follower
Specialized synonyms: Ass-kisser, Crawler, Lackey, Sycophant, Toady
Derivative terms: Adulate, Flatter
Definition of Adulator
1. n. A servile or hypocritical flatterer.
Definition of Adulator
1. Noun. One who lavishes excessive praises or flattery, one who adulates. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adulator
1. one that adulates [n -S] - See also: adulates
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adulator
Literary usage of Adulator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With Anecdotes of by Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland (1843)
"... adulator, was probably induced by the prognostics of thi approaching political
storm. Another sketch of Henrietta, in Waller's poetical portraiture, ..."
2. The Characters of Theophrastus: Illustrated by Physiognomical Sketches. To by Theophrastus, Isaac Taylor (1836)
"The adulator, walking with his patron, says, ' Mark you not how the eyes of all
are turned towards you? There is not another man in the city who attracts so ..."
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