fawning
pronunciation
How to pronounce fawning in British English:
UK ['fɔ:nɪŋ]
How to pronounce fawning in American English:
US ['fɔnɪŋ]
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- Adjective:
- attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
Word Origin
- fawning (adj.)
- mid-14c., present-participle adjective from fawn (v.). Related: Fawningly.
Example
- 1. The young couple from the corner comes over to greet chita with fawning smiles and handshakes .
- 2. Pyongyang 's fawning hagiography not only grates , but is singularly unearned .
- 3. Hbs has produced fawning studies of almost every recent corporate villain from enron ( which was stuffed full of hbs alumni ) to the royal bank of scotland .
- 4. Instead he has appeared as a fawning pr man , apparently willing to do or say just about anything to get elected .
- 5. That would mean a bit less fawning adulation for gates and buffett and a bit more old-fashioned scepticism .