Crossword-Solution: ADULATOR 8 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Unhappily enough, his compliments were seldom as well taken as they were meant; and, whether from the ingratitude of the persons complimented or the ill fortune of the noble adulator, seemed sometimes to produce indignation in place of delight.

Balfour was caught by Sir Ashmead before he had time to escape, and in sheer decency had to remain while his servile adulator was pouring on him buckets of butter, which must have appalled and disgusted him.

Now the virtue of friendship has a greater tendency to please than to displease: and so the quarrelsome man, who exceeds in giving displeasure sins more grievously than the adulator or flatterer, who exceeds in giving pleasure.

Waller, the most specious flatterer of flattering courts--the early worshipper of Charles the First--the pusillanimous betrayer of his friends--the adulator of Cromwell--the wit and the jester of the second Charles--the devotional whiner of the bigot James--had not, however, sufficient power to keep the lady from her slumbers long.

That's why I say----" "Nobody who knows anything about it says that," he observed, as if he were stating an interesting axiomatic principle and without a trace of the leer of the adulator.