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Adulator  n.  A servile or hypocritical flatterer.






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"Adulator" Quotes from Famous Books



... Vejento Catullo, Qui numquam visae flagrabat amore puellae, Grande, et conspicuum nostro quoque tempore monstrum, Caecus adulator, dirusque a ponte satelles, Dignus Aricinos qui mendicaret ad axes, Blandaque devexae jactaret ...
— The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus • Tacitus

... transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests. It is a just observation, that the people commonly INTEND the PUBLIC GOOD. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend that they always REASON RIGHT about the MEANS of promoting it. They know from experience that they sometimes err; and the wonder is that they so seldom err as they do, beset, ...
— The Federalist Papers • Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison

... se faenore tollit; qui pugnas et castra petit, praecingitur auro; vilis adulator picto iacet ebrius ostro, et qui sollicitat nuptas, ad praemia peccat: sola pruinosis horret facundia pannis atque inopi lingua ...
— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler



Words linked to "Adulator" :   flatterer, crawler, sycophant, adulate



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