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Panegyrical

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adj. Approving, complimentary, admiring, lavish with praise.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Same as panegyric.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. formally expressing praise

Word Usage

"By puncturing their smug self-righteousness and their pretense to impossibly high standards, Flashman shows them as genuinely great men and women, not the panegyrical statuary of Victorian literature—and he shows them as such by describing their response to him."

Equivalent

complimentary

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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