laudatory

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  1. adjective Expressing or conferring praise: a laudatory review of the new play.

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  • We can imagine what Caesar might have said among his friends of the expediency of putting down this self-laudatory Consul. —  Life of Cicero
  • These treasures, priceless for the historian, the antiquary, and the artist, were now going to be ruthlessly swept away at a pontiff's bidding, in order to make room for his haughty and self-laudatory monument. —  The Life of Michelangelo Buonarotti
  • It's well written, neither too laudatory or too critical, and contains information on most of the authors which is unavailable elsewhere. —  Asimov's Science Fiction - 1977_02(002)Summer
  • I did point out in the first message that he had clearly stepped out of his realm of expertise in his Crichton-laudatory column. —  RealClimate
  • 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
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  1. = Spanish Portuguese It, laudatorio, from Late Latin laudatorius, belonging to praise, from laudare, praise: see laud, v.
 

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/ˈlɔdətəri/
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