Verb (used without object) : The courtiers fawned over the king. From Dictionary.com.
Two shots for each time he fawningly smiles/chortles/or blushes. From Wordnik.com. [Charlie Gibson: McCain's Favorite Network Anchor?] Reference
"I'm sure you made a fine assassin, Emperor," Chiun said fawningly. From Wordnik.com. [Time Trial]
Most men she met became nervous in her presence and began acting fawningly toward her. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Desire]
They never understood why I wasn't fawningly grateful for all the opportunities they gave me. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Gryphon]
It's really hard to try and stay upbeat and at the same time fawningly apologetic and understanding. From Wordnik.com. [blue-parade Diary Entry] Reference
Miserably, incompetently, fawningly, they arranged their net and cast it over the side of the vessel. From Wordnik.com. [HOTHOUSE]
The dog whined an answer, and crept fawningly into the mountaineer's lap, where it nestled contentedly. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
He was back in a moment bearing a wineskin and cup, which he fawningly placed on the table nearest Conan. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Fearless]
Daniel Mendelsohn chooses to believe that I “fawningly asked to shake his hand,” when this was not the case at all. From Wordnik.com. [The War Against Subjective Truth : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference
Entertainment Weekly fawningly asks Malan Breton, the newly auf'd "Project Runway" contestant, with the oft laf'd at accent. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
Flores was visibly surprised and fawningly obsequious. From Wordnik.com. [The Ridin' Kid from Powder River] Reference
The request for water was neither fawningly nor piteously made. From Wordnik.com. [Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California] Reference
She said this fawningly, with evident intent to placate the sullen young man. From Wordnik.com. [The Landloper] Reference
The young man was in need of a cigar with which Pasquale served him fawningly. From Wordnik.com. [A Set of Six] Reference
The Author is fawningly Partial to the then Administration of Government there. From Wordnik.com. [A New and Accurate Account of the Provinces of South-Carolina and Georgia: With Many Curious and Useful Observations on the Trade, Navigation and Plantations of Great-Britain, Compared with Her Most Powerful Maritime Neighbours in Antient and Modern Times] Reference
But I'm not: and every now and then he remembers that, and creeps to my feet so fawningly. From Wordnik.com. [The Bed-Book of Happiness] Reference
Tesla was replying, not so fawningly, the bay beneath his soft words mastering his sycophantic tones. From Wordnik.com. [Erik Dorn] Reference
In the thick of a classical revival, when China's literati returned fawningly to ancient prose, the folk epic. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
What could be refreshing revisionism on some albums becomes, taken as a whole, a fawningly worshipful synopsis. From Wordnik.com. [Expecting Rain] Reference
But those celluloid depictions are fawningly unrealistic, while the Dalai Lama is typically reduced to a caricature. From Wordnik.com. [The Moderate Voice] Reference
"Whisper," he said, patting La Mothe's arm fawningly, a wry smile twitching his lips, but leaving the watchful eyes cold. From Wordnik.com. [The Justice of the King] Reference
Has Bramwell just recently discovered Mencken, so that he feels compelled to fawningly cite Mencken's cynical thoughts on everything?. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing American] Reference
In swept Susan; and Jeffries, rubbing his thick hands, said fawningly, "But I think, Mr. Gideon, you'll say it was worth waiting for.". From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
When we had degraded their fame and humbled them so that they came to us fawningly, asking to be used, we exalted them to be our servants. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Sketches] Reference
Byers fawningly replies: “Dawn, you’ll be just fine.”. From Wordnik.com. [I guess context doesn't matter anymore] Reference
It doesn’t paint a picture of a guy who is fawningly religious. From Wordnik.com. [Judge Jones: A Devout Christian? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Bowing fawningly to the terrorist-funding King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Malcontents] Reference
So why don’t you PLEASE shut-up about what rights you fawningly think he has?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Bush Supports Constitutional Amendment Banning Gay Marriage, Distorts Meaning of Democracy] Reference
You forgive me? "said she beseechingly, and lovingly and fawningly, all in one. From Wordnik.com. [The Cloister and the Hearth] Reference
Pasquale served him fawningly. From Wordnik.com. [A Set of Six] Reference
But those celluloid depictions are fawningly. From Wordnik.com. [KIKO'S HOUSE] Reference
The paparazzi press sings fawningly along. From Wordnik.com. [The Reality Check] Reference
Asa smiled fawningly. From Wordnik.com. [Shadows Linger]
Jefe, "he said fawningly. From Wordnik.com. [Clear and Present Danger]
“Their arching tails, and fawningly attend. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference
"Oh, yes, Master," Tem-Telek responded fawningly. From Wordnik.com. [Fortress Of Frost And Fire]
As an old cheat, coughing, smiling fawningly, bowing incessantly, Judas. From Wordnik.com. [The Crushed Flower and Other Stories] Reference
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