TV series example of the word
The Big Bang Theory Season 10, Episode 6
You'll have nerds fawning all over you.
Game of Thrones Season 4, Episode 8
- fawning over the Lady Arryn... - Lady Arryn invited me.
Definitions of fawning in English
adjective
(1) No data available
(2) Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
(3) Deferential
(4) Groveling
Examples of fawning in English
(1) He contented himself with fawning attentions to his reluctant wife.
(2) The biographer's fawning first chapter sets the tone.
(3) Fawning adoration
(4) We need good-natured tolerance, not fawning submission where ethnicity is concerned.
(5) Then he saw a young man come to the entrance of the courtyard, the swineherds dogs fawning upon him.
(6) That will at least turn what might feel like endless fawning into a two-way conversation.
(7) Even with a fawning audience, he wouldn't tolerate a record of any sort of embarrassment.
(8) Fawning adoration
(9) I just started writing all these fawning blog posts about her.
(10) I just wrote a fawning little feature article about him for the NBA Finals program.
(11) Inside I was annoyed he wasn't fawning all over me.
(12) Fawning interviews with Hollywood celebs
(13) Fawning interviews with Hollywood celebs
(14) The Roman satirists savagely expose the fawning homage heaped upon the childless rich.
synonyms of fawning
obsequious
toadyish
be obsequious to
cower
truckle
Antonyms of fawning
Aloof
Cool
Disinterested
Proud
Unfriendly
