laudatory

Example Sentences

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So even if CBS’s top trio is telling the truth about cancelling “The Late Show,” no amount of laudatory perfume can cover this stink.

From Salon

Veytia, a portly figure with a bushy mustache, seemed an unlikely Eliot Ness, but he was credited with reducing violence and hailed as “the terror of every criminal” in a laudatory corrido, or ballad.

From Los Angeles Times

Don’t misunderstand my tone as laudatory: In 17-plus years as prime minister across four decades, Netanyahu has continually outdone himself in viciousness, criminal depravity and shamelessly immoral or amoral statecraft.

From Salon

This was enough to trigger a cascade of laudatory coverage of Kennedy for meeting the bare minimum of common sense.

From Salon

With the leadership mantle passing from the former president to his understudy, Mondale offered a laudatory summation of the Carter administration.

From Los Angeles Times