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Definition of "fawned" []

  • Simple past tense and past participle of fawn. (verb)

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Use "fawned" in a sentence
  • "But a few years ago, I'd heard so many ugly stories about treatment of the people who aren't quite-important-enough that I finally had to call the fawned-over conference out in one of my highest-read BusinessWeek columns ever, all but guaranteeing I'll never be let in its hallowed doors."
  • "Is it appropriate to say our visiting troupe of commissioners "fawned" over a mouse?"
  • "At one point on the tour a visiting reporter from Sky News marveled to the press corps at the way Canadians "fawned" over the Queen, an elderly foreigner from Britain."
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