servile flattery exaggerated and hypocritical praise
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adulation
Sirs, adulation is a fatal thing -
Rank poison for a subject, or a king. [ Dr. Wolcot ]
Adulation is the death of virtue. Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest, save he who courts the flattery. [ Hannah More ]
Lovely, far more lovely, the sturdy gloom of laborious indigence than the fawning simper of thriving adulation. [ Goldsmith ]
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. [ Burke ]
O, be sick, great greatness, and bid thy ceremony give thee cure! Thinkest thou the fiery fever will go out with titles blown from adulation? [ William Shakespeare ]
adulationin Scrabble®
The word adulation is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.
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