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Definition of Fawning
1. Adjective. Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.
Similar to: Insincere
Derivative terms: Obsequiousness, Sycophant
2. Adjective. Attempting to win favor by flattery.
Definition of Fawning
1. Verb. (present participle of fawn) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fawning
1. fawn [v] - See also: fawn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fawning
Literary usage of Fawning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Young Husband: Or, Duties of Man in the Marriage Relation by William Andrus Alcott (1846)
"fawning. Difference between fawning and fondness. How our fond ness may be shown.
True simplicity. WHILE I commend a series of kind offices on the part of ..."
2. English Synonymes, with Copious Illustrations and Explanations, Drawn from by George Crabb (1854)
"... wheedling and cajoling are low practices confined to the baser sort of men
with each other ; fawning, though not lese mean and disgraceful than the ..."
3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"... We've bent the knee to chivalry, Have borne the lie and scorning, But now,
thank God, our Northern blood Has roused itself from fawning. ..."
4. The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque by William Combe (1844)
"... Here, take my wig and bring a cap My eye-lids languish for a nap: No court'sying,
pray ; I want no fawning, For I shall break my jaws with yawning. ..."
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