Verb (used without object) : The courtiers fawned over the king.    From Dictionary.com. 

It irked them that Alexander did not mock what they called my fawning barbarian ways, but chose me to compliment his guests of honor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Boy]

I'm SO not usually one of those Austin fawning types.    From Wordnik.com.  [Day in the Life of an Idiot] Reference

The Greek is literally said of dogs wagging the tail in fawning on one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

These profiles could hardly be called fawning or even admiring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Dreier: Why Does Anyone Take Andrew Breitbart Seriously?] Reference

If I were attentive, I was called fawning, if refractory, an obstinate mule, and like a mule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman] Reference

I recall her fawning over him some years ago when he did some extra-special marriage+ thingy.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Mike Huckabee has leaped ahead..."] Reference

All the fawning is appalling!.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I'm a little frumpy,' Obama says] Reference

It's funny to read conservatives grousing over "fawning" coverage of this inauguration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The sun rises on the Obama presidency... in Washington... here, from my outpost in Madison, Wisconsin, I'm live-blogging.] Reference

It's the kind of fawning media treatment any politician would die for -- in any normal election year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sean Paige: Can Bennet Survive the Washington Post's Damning Praise?] Reference

I take exception with describing the accolades it receives as "fawning," a word that seems very cynical to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask Matt: Raising Hope, Good Wife, Glee, Walking Dead and More] Reference

You're out of the country, so take my word for it -- until the last six months or so, "fawning" would hardly be an improper word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dissent] Reference

"I thought you were sick of the media 'fawning' over Obama?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] Reference

Douglas has devoted to what he himself calls "fawning" this year alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jihad Monitor] Reference

Paxman recently attacked the BBC for 'fawning' over the Royal Family in its coverage of the monarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman has claimed the BBC is "fawning" in its coverage of the Royal Family.    From Wordnik.com.  [ContactMusic Ltd | Latest News] Reference

Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw sparks uproar with Twitter claim that 'fawning' BBC is biased against Labour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

While the press is certainly still in the "fawning" mode, some are starting to slowly awake from their slumber.    From Wordnik.com.  [TalkLeft] Reference

"I have talked with two or three of them," the young man went on, "and I thought they had a kind of fawning manner.".    From Wordnik.com.  [An International Episode] Reference

But columnist Michelle Malkin notes that Ifill wrote a "fawning" magazine cover story about Obama and his wife Michelle.    From Wordnik.com.  [RenewAmerica] Reference

That kind of fawning attention from the Russians and the Europeans will get you EVERYWHERE with blue collar Americans ….    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Blog] Reference

Despite the advantages of incumbency-such as fawning state-controlled media-the main challenger, Sarath Fonseka, might yet sneak home.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist: Correspondent's diary]

She was spoken to in half a dozen languages and was showered from dawn to dusk with the kind of fawning love and attention that, in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Global Home] Reference

"and I thought they had a kind of fawning manner.".    From Wordnik.com.  [An International Episode] Reference

"I don't know the colour of his vest -- but he has a kind of fawning manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II)] Reference

Discount the fawning techno-burble about virtual communities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Internet? Bah!] Reference

And, of course, Maria Shriver would be fawning all over him as he dusts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark C. Miller: Why Real Men Don't Clean And What Happens When They Try] Reference

That practice took many forms-favors, gifts and fawning personal service.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Influence Game] Reference

Nothing unusual about a little fawning in the Oval, but it prompts questions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama’s Health-Care Gamble] Reference

His ho-hum performance, however, didn't keep the media from fawning over him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tim Tebow Autograph Sought By Reporters At Broncos-Bengals Game] Reference

A lot, actually — even if a fawning public reception is a foregone conclusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coming From America] Reference

Somehow the Times Dispatch left that one out of its fawning editorial and obituary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't forget who Kilpatrick really was] Reference

  Verdana had social engagements, gowns, and fawning men — but she had no true love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cock Sculpting] Reference

I anguished, mentally reaching for an editing pencil to strike out some fawning adjectives.    From Wordnik.com.  [History In The Making] Reference

Albion, which opened in January, doesn't take bookings, and there is no fawning service here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hold the Tablecloth] Reference

Rather than assemble an organization, for now he'll rely on fame, a fawning press and a 26-city book tour.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Powell Scenario] Reference

In Warner's vision, Caesar himself is a power mogul, complete with requisite black silk dressing gown, trophy wife and fawning retinue.    From Wordnik.com.  [ALL THE WAR'S A STAGE] Reference