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  • 111hagiography — /hægiˈɒgrəfi / (say hagee ogruhfee), /heɪdʒi / (say hayjee ) noun (plural hagiographies) 1. the writing and critical study of the lives of the saints; hagiology. 2. an adulatory biography which idealises its subject. –hagiographic /hægiəˈgræfɪk/… …

  • 112complimentary — [adj1] flattering adulatory, appreciative, approbative, approbatory, approving, celebrating, commendatory, congratulatory, courtly, encomiastic, encomiastical, eulogistic, fair spoken, fawning, highly favorable, honeyed, honoring, laudatory,… …

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  • 113courtly — [adj] refined manner adulatory, affable, aristocratic, august, ceremonious, chivalrous, civil, civilized, complimentary, conventional, cultured, decorous, dignified, elegant, flattering, formal, gallant, gracious, high bred, imposing, lofty,… …

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  • 114fawning — [adj] deferential, groveling abject, adulatory, bootlicking*, bowing, brownnosing*, compliant, cowering, crawling, cringing, flattering, humble, ingratiating, kowtowing*, mealy mouthed*, obsequious, parasitic, prostrate, scraping, servile,… …

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  • 115fulsome — [adj] sickening or excessive behavior adulatory, bombastic, buttery*, canting, cloying, coarse, extravagant, fawning, flattering, glib, grandiloquent, hypocritical, immoderate, ingratiating, inordinate, insincere, magniloquent, mealy mouthed*,… …

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  • 116glowing — [adj1] burning, bright aglow, beaming, flaming, florid, flush, flushed, gleaming, lambent, luminous, lustrous, phosphorescent, red, rich, rubicund, ruddy, sanguine, suffused, vibrant, vivid, warm; concepts 617,618 glowing [adj2] very happy,… …

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  • 117laudatory — [adj] complimentary acclamatory, adulatory, approbative, approbatory, approving, commendatory, encomiastic, eulogistic, flattering, laudative, panegyrical, praiseful; concept 267 Ant. blaming, castigating, critical …

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  • 118adulation —   n. excessive flattery; abject worship.    ♦ adulatory, a …

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  • 119Насралла, Сайед Хасан — Генеральный секретарь шиитской террористической группировки Хизбалла Духовный лидер и генеральный секретарь шиитской террористической группировки Хизбалла , которую возглавил в 1992 году. Отказался разоружить свою группировку после окончания… …

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  • 120adulate — adulation ► NOUN ▪ excessive admiration. DERIVATIVES adulate verb adulatory adjective. ORIGIN Latin, from adulari fawn on …

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