Examples of adulatory

• The crowd at Friday's rally was adulatory.

• After a parade of adulatory speeches from committee members, he fielded questions.

• He is less than adulatory of the Smithsonian Institute.

• Reviews were almost unanimously adulatory; hardly anyone noticed that the editors' commitment to 'folk' linguistics had seriously distorted their work.

• For decades, nurses have been showered with adulatory phrases, but their medical experience should teach them that there is no sustenance in such a dietary.

• It is not always an entirely adulatory relationship on either side — indeed, it should not be adulatory — but they are working well and constructively.

• The authority is not uncritical nor adulatory.

• Initial responses to the show included adulatory reviews, some controversy, and high ratings.