0 showing great admiration or praise for someone, especially when it is more than is deserved: --
Initial responses to the show included adulatory reviews, some controversy and high ratings.
Her letters also provide interesting, less adulatory information about her father.
Initial responses to the show included adulatory reviews, some controversy, and high ratings.
The authority is not uncritical nor adulatory.
It is not always an entirely adulatory relationship on either side — indeed, it should not be adulatory — but they are working well and constructively.
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.
Reviews were almost unanimously adulatory; hardly anyone noticed that the editors' commitment to 'folk' linguistics had seriously distorted their work.
He is less than adulatory of the Smithsonian Institute.
