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fawning

/fawn/US // fɔn //UK // (fɔːn) //

献媚,媚态,谄媚,媚俗

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a young deer, especially an unweaned one.
    • : a light yellowish-brown color.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : light yellowish-brown.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to bring forth young.

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Examples

  • My job is to cover you, not fawn over you or rip you — just report on you.

  • Of course, this could be explained by the admittedly large percentage of the audience composed of fawning film students.

  • Sharpton, who once confessed he will never criticize the president, in his transparent fawning for access, has gotten it.

  • Between the Walters fawning and the Colbert debacle, Amaitis is fortunate only to be paying a record fine.

  • The fawning strangers ask questions like “What was it like…being shot at?”

  • The Guardian's Luke Harding, calling Assange a "fawning" interviewer, totally missed the point.

  • They all immediately got up to make room for him, and handed him a chair in a manner the most servile and fawning.

  • The principles of liberty were the scoff of every grinning courtier, and the Anathema Maranatha of every fawning dean.

  • There was nothing fawning in his attitude; he conducted himself with the dignity of a fallen monarch.

  • Mr. Fogg, in the presence of Julius Marston, was properly obsequious, but not a bit fawning.

  • Again he calls upon his fawning admirers to annihilate Christianity, to hunt it down, to vilify it, to ruin it.