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Definition of Adulation
Adulation

Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited.

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Adulation Quotations

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
Linus Torvalds

The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.
Michelle Shocked

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.
Bill Wyman

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.
Charlie Watts

And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.
David Thewlis

Adulation Translations

adulation in French is flatterie
adulation in German is Schmeichelei
adulation in Italian is lisciatura
adulation in Swedish is krypande smicker

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