Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Applauding; commending.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Applauding; commending.
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- adjective
Applauding ;commending .
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Examples
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In my speech I made reference to the 'randy granny' I'd been talking to - in an entirely plauditory way.
Archive 2006-11-01 Glyn Davies 2006
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(Her "activist" career is outlined in this hilariously plauditory article from the pro-Palestinian Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.)
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Scotland, when he called upon me, that he was to have an important appointment -- I have had opportunity to say plauditory things of them in vast assemblages in Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, London and Grimsby Park.
T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him Mrs. T. de Witt Talmage 1867
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As it is, the leading pharmaceutical lobbying groups are either publicly silent on the legislation or largely plauditory.
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page EP Vantage 2010
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"But I find, sir, I am now got into a very large field, where though I could with great ease raise a number of plants in relation to your merit of this plauditory nature; yet for fear of an author's general vice, and that the plain justice I have done you should, by my proceeding and others 'mistaken judgment, be imagined flattery, a thing the bluntness of my nature does not care to be concerned with, and which I also know you abominate."
The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken
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