0 showing great admiration or praise for someone, especially when it is more than is deserved:
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.
