Translation for "to fawn" to spanish
To fawn
verb
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Translation examples
verb
He would not fawn on the princes;
No iba a adular a los príncipes;
We heard he fawns upon you, Prince Flamadin.
No para de adularos, príncipe Flamadin.
Had she tested his loyalty by fawning over Quaiche?
¿Había puesto a prueba su lealtad al adular a Quaiche?
In each, another Governor dashed up to the Servant and fawned upon him.
En cada una de ellas un nuevo Gobernador corrió a adular al Siervo.
Would you believe he was actually fawning all over the bastardLycheas?
¿Vais a creer que el lugarteniente no paró de adular al bastardo Lycheas?
'Come to fawn over Antonius?' 'No,' she protested. 'Or Caesar?' he said suspiciously.
¿Has venido a adular a Antonio? —No —protestó ella. —¿O a César? —dijo él con suspicacia—.
He had learned to bully those less powerful than himself and fawn on those who ruled him.
Había aprendido a meterse sólo con los que eran más débiles que él y a adular a los que le gobernaban.
During the last months of her life, the Blue had all but fawned over Rand.
Durante los últimos meses de su vida, a la Azul sólo le había faltado adular a Rand.
Was it her fault if the girl had finally had enough of being fawned over by her hypocrite of a mother?
¿Era culpa suya que la niña hubiera acabado hartándose de que la adulara aquella madre hipócrita?
He could fawn for hours.
Podía lisonjear durante horas.
A’ida interjected in an even voice, “What do you mean by ‘fawning over the nobility’?
Pero Aida intervino en la conversación, diciendo con una voz armoniosa: — ¿Qué significa lisonjear a los grandes?
When the Chief of Naval Operations stopped by and fawned over his wife, he decided it was the latter.
Cuando el jefe de Operaciones Navales se paró a lisonjear a su señora esposa, llegó a la conclusión de que era lo segundo.
Only a man with an excellent memory for the baroque formulations of excessive encomia could fawn cumulatively, on account of the repetitions required and the necessary precision of the sequencing.
Solo un hombre con una memoria excelente para las fórmulas barrocas del encomio excesivo era capaz de lisonjear acumulativamente, habida cuenta de las repeticiones requeridas y la necesaria precisión de las secuencias.
Sadly enough, beauty is rarely found among common people.” A’ida interjected in an even voice, “What do you mean by ‘fawning over the nobility’?
¡y, por desgracia, la belleza raras veces se puede encontrar entre la gente vulgar…! Pero Aida intervino en la conversación, diciendo con una voz armoniosa: —¿Qué significa lisonjear a los grandes?
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