complimentary

The complimentary appetizer that was once cheap enough to disappear into the cost of doing business becomes expensive enough to notice.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 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

"He was very complimentary and it sounds like he was actually watching it," Jamieson told BBC Sport Scotland.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

It’s all zeroed out because everything is complimentary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

“Spirited,” Rishi finished, in a way that implied he’d considered, and then decided against, using a much less complimentary adjective.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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

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

That, sir, he has to shew here; and confirmed under the hands of the most skilful and cunning complimentaries alive: Please you read, sir.

From Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson

When it became evident to Fuller that the venture was not going to pay, he sent out a flood of complimentaries to the school-teachers of New York City and the surrounding districts.

From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875) by Albert Bigelow Paine