fawning
FAW-ningadjMeaning flattering in an overeager, groveling way
Memory hook FAWNING: like a puppy begging. The puppy wags, rolls over and licks Sven’s boots, all for one biscuit; flattery that eager, from a person, is fawning.
The fawning fans crowded around the singer, praising even her sneezes.
In context The review was not criticism but fawning praise: the writer called every scene a masterpiece and every actor a genius.
Similar groveling, sycophantic, toadying, slavish
Opposite critical, dismissive, standoffish