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adulate verb acclaim, admire, applaud, approbate, approve, celebrate, commend, compliment, eulogize, exalt, express, extol, flatter, glorify, idolize, laud, lionize, overpraise, pay tribute to, praise, salute See also: overestimate How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Like Louis's entry, then
Conde's was a standard celebration of royal majesty, "an
occasion to adulate the royal person
Never been forced to adulate a figure we clearly know as such a
jackass. Patent's dispassionate approach allows her to
point out omissions (such as Lewis and Clark's failure to give a
physical description of the coyote), sloppy documentation (the confusion
of the grizzly bear's multiple names, for example), and strengths
(the scope and volume of the data gathered) without appearing either to
debunk or to adulate. |
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