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fawning

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noun

fawning

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verb

present participle of fawn

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fawning
Adjective
  • Listen to this article Mayor Michelle Wu, just a week after what her obsequious supporters hailed as a virtuoso performance before a hostile congressional oversight panel, finds herself suddenly under a harsh federal microscope.
    Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Many, if not most, of these figures earned Trump’s loyalty by using their platforms to be obsequious stewards of MAGA—in effect, creating a quasi–state media.
    Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Hierarchies breed a hell of a lot of sycophancy and resentment, and this one is no different.
    Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Groupthink and sycophancy played a role in Iraqi decision-making, the records show, but not as much as might have been expected.
    Amatzia Baram, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2012
Adjective
  • So Alex dons a uniform, buses tables and engages in servile labor for the first time in her life.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Trump’s servile devotion to Putin becomes the new norm overnight as Republicans cower in support of Trump’s new Putin policy.
    Bob Kustra, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This is far from the first time Ina has shared her adoration for this saucy and cozy comfort food recipe.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Grande and Erivo’s super sweet bond, which was on display during the Wicked press tour, makes this performance and the pair’s very clear mutual adoration for each other, even more special.
    Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Nonetheless, the film’s tension is almost immediately diffused by a slavish devotion to the facts.
    Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Yet in Kim’s slavish dedication to the Jeju haenyeo’s testimony, many questions that arise in this setting are left unexplored.
    Geoffrey Bunting, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • In certain regions, combatant commands also oversee subordinate commands.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
  • But clearly, Azerbaijan’s big green-energy goals remain subordinate to fossil fuels for the foreseeable future.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • San Xavier del Bac (Arizona) Unlike many old Spanish churches that are now museums or parks, this mission on the outskirts of Tucson is still a very active place of worship and learning as well as meeting place for the local Tohono O’odham community.
    Joe Yogerst, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Taihong Ouyang, 49, was arrested Tuesday and charged with burglary and criminal mischief, both as hate crimes, and aggravated harassment after a string of break ins at the worship sites earlier that day.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • More importantly to the court proceedings that would follow in later decades, the group stressed that women are subservient to men, a belief that William wholeheartedly embraced, his ex-wife says.
    Justin Wingerter, The Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2025
  • So essentially, Hera takes this subservient position as a compromise to keep reality from crumbling.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 12 Feb. 2025
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“Fawning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fawning. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.

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