Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Expressing or conferring praise.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing or expressing praise; praising highly; extolling.
- noun laudatories (-riz). That which contains or expresses praise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining praise, or to the expression of praise
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
praise , or the expression of praise.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective full of or giving praise
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was difficult to talk to Mr. Holbrooke about his last role without recalling a laudatory review he wrote two years ago of Gordon Goldstein's book about McGeorge Bundy and the Vietnam
NYT > Home Page By ALBERT R. HUNT | BLOOMBERG NEWS 2010
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It was difficult to talk to Holbrooke about his last role without recalling a laudatory review he wrote two years ago of Gordon Goldstein's book about McGeorge Bundy and the Vietnam War.
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It was difficult to talk to Holbrooke about his last role without recalling a laudatory review he wrote two years ago of Gordon Goldstein's book about McGeorge Bundy and the Vietnam War.
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It was difficult to talk to Holbrooke about his last role without recalling a laudatory review he wrote two years ago of Gordon Goldstein's book about McGeorge Bundy and the Vietnam War.
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Last month, he published what could reasonably be described as a laudatory piece on the life and character of one Tony Abbott in
Larvatus Prodeo Kim 2010
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Other council members thought the idea laudatory, with Mayor Frank Ferry allegedly stating the city was "pretty Christian."
unknown title 2009
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Senate, she didn't get the kind of laudatory acclaim that Obama is getting on the campaign trail.
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Then they segue to an article from yesterday's Globe and Mail which the Telly dismisses as being "laudatory" of the oil giant, Exxon.
Archive 2006-04-01 Ed Hollett 2006
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Gelf Magazine: Genius is the kind of laudatory term that really separates someone from their peers-and in this case, seemed to cut against Bill's early desire to relate to his players.
Gelf Magazine 2009
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The vesting option doesn't particularly bother me because it sounds like the kind of laudatory chrome that's just there to make someone feel better about themselves -- if Alex Cora starts his 81st game, I bet Omar Minaya's watching it from his couch while Wayne Krivsky or someone else telegraphs his I-gotta-fix-this concern for the SNY cameras.
guitar commented on the word laudatory
Expressing praise
July 8, 2014