ADULATORY

PRONUNCIATION: (AJ-uh-luh-tor-ee)

MEANING: adjective: Praising or admiring slavishly.

ANAGRAM: adulatory = laudatory

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin adulari (to flatter, to fawn upon, like a dog wagging its tail). Earliest documented use: 1587.
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ODULATORY (anagram: LOUDATORY) - high-decibel speech after too much low-alcohol beer

ADULTORY - hanky-panky on the Conservative side of the aisle

ADULSTORY - the kind you have to put down after reading the first three pages