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adulate

a juh layt

  • v  flatter in an obsequious manner

  • Is the planet so emaciated in human leadership--the Mother Teresas and Geraldine Ferraros--that we have to adulate the American dollar? Let's vote for Cap Weinberger.
  • Despite their lack of freedom, the 800 million Chinese revere and adulate him, because he drove out the foreigners and restored to China much of its former power and self-respect.

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