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- verb Present participle of
accolade .
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Examples
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I would spend the money just to spite those who feel their pompous blabbering and ‘high school mentality,’ self-accolading, pubescent, back-slapping, “hey dude we really came up with some righteous knocks against that guy” sort of attitude.
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I would spend the money just to spite those who feel their pompous blabbering and ‘high school mentality,’ self-accolading, pubescent, back-slapping, “hey dude we really came up with some righteous knocks against that guy” sort of attitude.
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Tuileries; his Majesty the King of Prussia and the Reichsverweser accolading each other at Cologne at my elbow; Admiral Sir Charles
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Majesty the King of Prussia and the Reichsverweser accolading each other at Cologne at my elbow; Admiral Sir Charles Napier (in an omnibus once), the Duke of Wellington, the immortal Goethe at Weimar, the late benevolent Pope Gregory XVI., and a score more of the famous in this world -- the whom whenever one looks at, one has a mild shock of awe and tremor.
The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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