commendatory

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A quick scroll through his timeline will mostly yield commendatory musings about various Amazon ventures or the executive’s space-exploration outfit, Blue Origin.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 11, 2017

A quick scroll through his timeline will mostly yield commendatory musings about various Amazon ventures or the executive’s space exploration outfit, Blue Origin.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2017

Kids' lives are crowded with trophies and awards--the computer-generated commendatory certificates blow through my house like ticker tape; they get underfoot and gather on the floor of the car.

From Time Magazine Archive

If the inference is commendatory, it is accepted graciously; if it is the needle, the plumbing industry, proud of its history, is "vein" enough to absorb the injection.

From Time Magazine Archive

Note his dishonesty in confessing that he has commendatory letters, yet not publishing a single one of them.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose