: seeking or used to seek approval or favor by means of flattery
… they are excellent emblems of fawning yet fickle fandom …—
Thomas Boswell
Thomas BoswellHe's sitting in a shaded pavillion, surrounded by a dozen fawning politicians …—Barbara Crossette
Barbara CrossetteI was astonished that Frost could've read the poem as anything but an act of fawning servility.—Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff
fawningly
adverb
Not since the glory days of the glossy movie fan mags have stars been viewed so uncritically, so fawningly.
—Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
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“Fawning.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fawning. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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