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单词 fawner
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Definition of fawner in English:

fawner

noun 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:

fawner

noun
  • 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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