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fawningly
adverb
disapprovinguk /ˈfɔː.nɪŋ.li/ us /ˈfɑː.nɪŋ.li/
in a way that praises someone too much and gives them a lot of attention that is not sincere in order to get a positive reaction:
The fan told her fawningly that he loved everything that she had ever done.
I don't like how the royal family are so fawningly adored, no matter what they do or say.
Despite having had an extremely successful career, she remains fawningly subservient when she meets members of the nobility.
The Prime Minister's adviser told him fawningly that the whole cabinet was 100% behind him.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Praising insincerely or too eagerly
backhanded compliment
bootlicker
bow and scrapeidiom
crawler
creep
glad-handing
grovel
grovelling
grovellingly
hagiographic
obsequious
obsequiously
people pleaser
play up to someone
schmooze
sycophantically
toady
toadying
truckle
unctuous
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