词汇 | fawningly |
释义 | 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. 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 Related wordfawning |
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