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Definition of fawner in English: fawnernoun ˈfɔːnə A person who gives a servile display of exaggerated flattery or affection. the consummate fawner was able to sway a president with false deference Example sentencesExamples - Never has America been so thoroughly in the clutches of fawners, lap dogs, toadies, boot lickers, lick spittles, and Snopses.
- He will be remembered for starring in a series of urban myths fuelled by celebrity fawners which painted him as some anarchic anti-hero.
- Money is what separates the fans friom the fawners.
- Hubris no doubt swam through the potentate's soul as the quivering fawners cried, "The voice of a God and not of a man!"
- You had the mendicants, sycophants, lick-spittles, toadies, fawners all with their tin cups, looking for a handout of taxpayers' funds.
- And yet we men do not approve; nay, if we see a man sharing his goods with other men, we call it wastefulness, extravagance, and by such names, and dub the men to whom he gives a share, fawners and parasites.
Definition of fawner in US English: fawnernoun A person who gives a servile display of exaggerated flattery or affection. the consummate fawner was able to sway a president with false deference Example sentencesExamples - Money is what separates the fans friom the fawners.
- He will be remembered for starring in a series of urban myths fuelled by celebrity fawners which painted him as some anarchic anti-hero.
- Hubris no doubt swam through the potentate's soul as the quivering fawners cried, "The voice of a God and not of a man!"
- Never has America been so thoroughly in the clutches of fawners, lap dogs, toadies, boot lickers, lick spittles, and Snopses.
- And yet we men do not approve; nay, if we see a man sharing his goods with other men, we call it wastefulness, extravagance, and by such names, and dub the men to whom he gives a share, fawners and parasites.
- You had the mendicants, sycophants, lick-spittles, toadies, fawners all with their tin cups, looking for a handout of taxpayers' funds.
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