What is the difference between praise and adulation?
praise | adulation |
To give praise to.
Flattery; fulsome praise.
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, 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.}}
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As nouns the difference between praise and adulation
is that praise is commendation; favourable representation in words while adulation is flattery; fulsome praise.As a verb praise
is to give praise to.praise
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Synonyms
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* blame * criticize * SeeDerived terms
* damn with faint praise * praiseworthy * sing the praisesVerb
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Noun
(en noun)- 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; [...]