complimentary
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Humphrey Carpenter’s authorized 1977 biography contains three index mentions of Shakespeare, none directing the reader to anything complimentary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Schadenfreude isn’t listed among Airbnb’s amenities — but this week, it’s practically complimentary.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
Caruso was complimentary of the mayor’s leadership at the groundbreaking for the new center, which will replace one destroyed in the 2025 Palisades fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
None of the songs about him were complimentary.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
From his friend, Andrew heard all the town gossip, and you could see by the rude way in which the other dog laughed as he told it, that it wasn’t very complimentary.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
"Now sure, Captain Jack, ye's always full of your complimentaries," replied the sutler, taking the bridle of her customer.
From The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper
No a dime, he says; but he showed me a bunch of complimentaries and laughed and said he’d sell them cheap.
From The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
Why, if I had an interest in your show I could fill your place with complimentaries 30 to the real people of Seaside Park.
From The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
Through some unaccountable oversight, they neglected to specially mark or punch these complimentaries.
From A Pirate of Parts by Richard Neville
Fuller, however, always ready for an emergency, sent out a flood of complimentaries to the school-teachers of New York and adjacent territory, and the house was crammed.
From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866) by Albert Bigelow Paine
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