Word of the Day:
adulation
What It Means
He was uncomfortable with the adulation from his fans.
Adulation in Context
“Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.”
Did You Know?
From French adulation, from Latin adulātio (“flattery”).
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