GRE vocabulary
adulatory
expressing excessive or servile admiration and praise
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Adulatory in a sentence
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The biography was so adulatory that it read more like a fan letter than a study.
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Adulatory (adjective) means expressing excessive or servile admiration and praise
Here is adulatory used in an example sentence: "The biography was so adulatory that it read more like a fan letter than a study."
Common synonyms for adulatory include fawning, flattering, worshipful, sycophantic.
Antonyms of adulatory include critical, disparaging, disdainful.
Adulatory is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.
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