Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who applauds, praises, or commends.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who applauds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
applauds .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who applauds
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Examples
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Dick Chimney is is what…the “decision-applauder-cheerleader” ?
Think Progress » President Bush: ‘I’m The Decision-Maker’ 2007
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But still I wanted, and waited for, with humble patience, and made it part of my constant prayers, that the divine Grace would at last touch his heart, and make him more than a countenancer, more than an applauder of my duties; that he might for his own dear sake, become a partaker in them.
Pamela 2006
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However, Stillings, who has an accent common to the northeastern United States, told audience members that Faryad Hussain, the instigator of a 2002 marriage fraud operation in Fond du Lac, was "an applauder" of 9/11, not "a plotter," according to the ICE statement.
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However, Stillings, who has an accent common to the northeastern United States, told audience members that Faryad Hussain, the instigator of a 2002 marriage fraud operation in Fond du Lac, was "an applauder" of 9/11, not "a plotter," according to the ICE statement.
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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Nolan was as high as Fiona, Lewis a grudging applauder.
Longshot Francis, Dick 1990
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Nolan was as high as Fiona, Lewis a grudging applauder.
Longshot Francis, Dick 1990
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Like the rat-rat-tat of a quick-firing gun was the appreciative volley of recognition from the solitary applauder.
Thoroughbreds William Alexander Fraser 1896
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As a future intended parent by surrogacy, I'm a supporter/applauder of various assisted/third party reproduction techniques and sperm/egg donation.
Ask MetaFilter 2010
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How are the morals of the people to resist a doctrine which teaches them that the rich only can be criminal, and that poverty is a substitute for virtue -- that wealth is holden by the sufferance of those who do not possess it -- and that he who is the frequenter of a club, or the applauder of a party, is exempt from the duties of his station, and has a right to insult and oppress his fellow citizens?
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How are the morals of the people to resist a doctrine which teaches them that the rich only can be criminal, and that poverty is a substitute for virtue -- that wealth is holden by the sufferance of those who do not possess it -- and that he who is the frequenter of a club, or the applauder of a party, is exempt from the duties of his station, and has a right to insult and oppress his fellow citizens?
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