fawning in the PONS Dictionary

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He is put off by fawning women.
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And yet, there are thousands of posts, dozens of hashtags devoted to these foods and countless fawning news stories devoted to these foods.
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He is very gentle with all who are humble or modest, but scornful of both fawning and pretentiousness.
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When white people make fawning comments about you and your "people" as if you were different, genetically, physically, culturally?
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Spotted hyenas will sometimes follow jackals during the gazelle fawning season, as jackals are effective at tracking and catching young animals.
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They too are human, so be respectful but not fawning.
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Evoking allure of wealth and power, it is known to curry favor and fawning by those who covet it.
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He was known to have been strict to subordinates that he seemed to wish to reduce them to tears, while fawning over superiors.
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These are fawning but barbed portraits and are thought to represent personalities of the times but the actual analogues are, now as then, debatable.
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What would matter would be ideologic obsequiousness, fawning references to deconstructionist writers, and sufficient quantities of the appropriate jargon.
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