| 单词 |
fawningly |
| 释义 |
fawningly, adv.|ˈfɔːnɪŋlɪ| [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a fawning manner: a. Caressingly, joyfully. b. Cringingly, flatteringly, servilely. a.1790T. Bewick Quadrupeds (1807) 358 The sagacious animal..leapt fawningly against the breast of a man. b.1591Harington Orl. Fur. 332 note, Those Princes..that (as is said of them) ‘Never see lookes, but fawninglie disguised’. 1654Trapp Comm. Matt. xii. 38 They [i.e. the Pharisees] had nothing to say for themselves, but fawningly to call him Master. a1711Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 178 Lucifer..Strove fawningly t' attract good Edmund's Ear. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 401. ‘It was set down in my instructions’, answered Jeffreys, fawningly, ‘that I was to show no mercy to men like you.’ |

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