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Adulation vs Ingratiating - What's the difference?

adulation | ingratiating |

As a noun adulation

is flattery; fulsome praise.

As an adjective ingratiating is

which ingratiates; which attempts to bring oneself into the favour of another. The implication is often of flattery or insincerity.

As a verb ingratiating is

present participle of lang=en.

adulation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Flattery; fulsome praise.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3 , passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
  • * 1919 , ,
    • It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; [...]

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * adulate * adulator * adulatory

    See also

    * admiration * adoration

    Anagrams

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    ingratiating

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Which ingratiates; which attempts to bring oneself into the favour of another. The implication is often of flattery or insincerity.
    • That was an ingratiating smile.

    Verb

    (head)