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US
/kənˈɡɹætʃəɫəˌtɔɹi/
]
[ UK /kənɡɹˈætʃʊlˈeɪtəɹˌi/ ]
[ UK /kənɡɹˈætʃʊlˈeɪtəɹˌi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune
a gratulatory address
a congratulatory telegram
the usual congratulatory crowd was conspicuously absent
How To Use congratulatory In A Sentence
- They'd probably just send me emails of congratulatory thanks, signing off with, ‘thanks, dude.’
- Instead a self-congratulatory smile played around the man's mouth, giving him a faintly feline look. THE SOUND OF MURDER
- I got the feeling he was going through a self-congratulatory stage of his career by showing us just how clever he can be.
- In plush surroundings trimmed with red carpet, the cliques of minor celebrities gather in small, self-congratulatory packs, wine in hand.
- That kind of self-congratulatory showmanship doesn't sit well with me.
- When I score they stick little congratulatory notes to my door. The Sun
- Perhaps unsurprisingly, presidential memoirs are usually dull, uninformative and embarrassingly self-congratulatory.
- It was full of self-satisfied, self-congratulatory claptrap designed to fool the public - I will come back to that in a moment.
- Being carried on the shoulders of college kids seems way too self-congratulatory.
- H. E. Dorje Rinzin Rinpoche, master of the seventh Dzogchen Dharma King in China, stamps his fingerprint onto the congratulatory letter he wrote to H. H. Dorje Chang Buddha III.
