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词汇 fawning
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Definition of fawning in English:

fawning

adjective ˈfɔːnɪŋˈfɔnɪŋ
  • Displaying exaggerated flattery or affection; obsequious.

    fawning adoration
    fawning interviews with Hollywood celebs
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For Norman, a beautiful young white girl fawning on his every word was one of the reasons he got into film in the first place.
    • We need good-natured tolerance, not fawning submission where ethnicity is concerned.
    • That will at least turn what might feel like endless fawning into a two-way conversation.
    • Are these worthy of fawning cover stories?
    • I just wrote a fawning little feature article about him for the NBA Finals program.
    • Inside I was annoyed he wasn't fawning all over me.
    • The Roman satirists savagely expose the fawning homage heaped upon the childless rich.
    • The biographer's fawning first chapter sets the tone.
    • Neither option really appealed to Darcy, but anything had to be better than spending the day with Caroline fawning over him.
    • Reliable code, after all, doesn't generate fawning press, or indeed any press at all.
    • I just started writing all these fawning blog posts about her.
    • The fawning, celebrity-worshiping media should keep this in mind.
    • What with his mother and Miss Darcy fawning all over him, Jeremy was certainly having a good time.
    • Goethe, Heidegger, and Stefan Georg were all surrounded by fawning disciples.
    • Even the corporate media, for all its fawning cowardice, hasn't been as derelict as blog rhetoric would paint it.
    • Even with a fawning audience, he wouldn't tolerate a record of any sort of embarrassment.
    • Then he saw a young man come to the entrance of the courtyard, the swineherds dogs fawning upon him.
    • No one will be fawning over him simply because he is a prince and likely to foot the bar bill.
    • It is a sacrilege to his fawning American fans to think that he can do any wrong.
    • He contented himself with fawning attentions to his reluctant wife.

Derivatives

  • fawningly

  • adverb
    • The wine list is fairly priced, refreshingly pro-French and Old World and the service is sharp and vigilant but not fawningly over-attentive.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Kathryn rolled her eyes scathingly and made a deal of staring fawningly at the castle, her eyes glittering with mockery.
      • Women threw themselves at him, of course, but they would not have done so had he not exuded some perverse invitation to emotional excess in which they were fawningly complicit.
      • When the dissident ‘good news’ scientist spoke to a conservative Washington think tank he was applauded not merely rapturously, but fawningly.
      • There's a lot of great music here, along with a 120-page book that fawningly recounts the history of the band and provides a track-by-track commentary from them.

Definition of fawning in US English:

fawning

adjectiveˈfɔnɪŋˈfôniNG
  • Displaying exaggerated flattery or affection; obsequious.

    fawning adoration
    fawning interviews with Hollywood celebs
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Then he saw a young man come to the entrance of the courtyard, the swineherds dogs fawning upon him.
    • I just wrote a fawning little feature article about him for the NBA Finals program.
    • What with his mother and Miss Darcy fawning all over him, Jeremy was certainly having a good time.
    • The Roman satirists savagely expose the fawning homage heaped upon the childless rich.
    • It is a sacrilege to his fawning American fans to think that he can do any wrong.
    • Even with a fawning audience, he wouldn't tolerate a record of any sort of embarrassment.
    • The biographer's fawning first chapter sets the tone.
    • For Norman, a beautiful young white girl fawning on his every word was one of the reasons he got into film in the first place.
    • We need good-natured tolerance, not fawning submission where ethnicity is concerned.
    • No one will be fawning over him simply because he is a prince and likely to foot the bar bill.
    • Inside I was annoyed he wasn't fawning all over me.
    • That will at least turn what might feel like endless fawning into a two-way conversation.
    • Neither option really appealed to Darcy, but anything had to be better than spending the day with Caroline fawning over him.
    • Goethe, Heidegger, and Stefan Georg were all surrounded by fawning disciples.
    • I just started writing all these fawning blog posts about her.
    • Are these worthy of fawning cover stories?
    • The fawning, celebrity-worshiping media should keep this in mind.
    • Reliable code, after all, doesn't generate fawning press, or indeed any press at all.
    • Even the corporate media, for all its fawning cowardice, hasn't been as derelict as blog rhetoric would paint it.
    • He contented himself with fawning attentions to his reluctant wife.
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