How To Use Congratulatory In A Sentence
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They'd probably just send me emails of congratulatory thanks, signing off with, ‘thanks, dude.’
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Instead a self-congratulatory smile played around the man's mouth, giving him a faintly feline look.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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I got the feeling he was going through a self-congratulatory stage of his career by showing us just how clever he can be.
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In plush surroundings trimmed with red carpet, the cliques of minor celebrities gather in small, self-congratulatory packs, wine in hand.
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That kind of self-congratulatory showmanship doesn't sit well with me.
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When I score they stick little congratulatory notes to my door.
The Sun
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, presidential memoirs are usually dull, uninformative and embarrassingly self-congratulatory.
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It was full of self-satisfied, self-congratulatory claptrap designed to fool the public - I will come back to that in a moment.
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Being carried on the shoulders of college kids seems way too self-congratulatory.
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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.
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At times, the tenor of the discussions became cloyingly self-congratulatory.
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The trio reaches annoying heights of self-congratulatory backslapping on occasion, but on the whole there's an honest, cheerful camaraderie between the participants.
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There were no crowds, no television cameras, no open-topped bus, or regulation congratulatory royals, when this jumbo victory - sorry, couldn't resist that - happened.
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"I'm not a green, beardy, self-congratulatory environmental campaigner," he says.
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Anyway, paradigm's definition is so complicated and self-congratulatory that its usage is generally limited to the kind of people who use words like "ersatz" and "natch" - out loud anyway.
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The whole thing feels too self-congratulatory, too much like an in-joke.
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It's the sort of self-congratulatory promotional material you'd expect.
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Packard's tone sometimes veers toward the self-congratulatory, but in this case, it somehow seems justified.
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He gave a congratulatory address.
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When the Iraqi government took over formal control of Basra Province from the British military on Sunday, the Americans put out a congratulatory and supportive press release.
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The ceremonies of initiation in the Adonia began with lamentation for his loss, -- or, as the prophet Ezekiel expresses it, "Behold, there sat women weeping for Thammuz," -- for such was the name under which his worship was introduced among the Jews; and they ended with the most extravagant demonstrations of joy at the representation of his return to life, [23] while the hierophant exclaimed, in a congratulatory strain, --
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
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Your daughter may need a hug, your son a congratulatory handshake, or vice versa.
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I went in thinking this was going to be another gasbagging exchange of self-congratulatory muckety-mucks, and to a certain extent it was.
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
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He does, after all, have a few other things to do - like take congratulatory phone calls from the world's presidents and potentates.
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Rotten made it clear that there was another kind of fun that could be had, a forbidden fun that was riskier and more dangerous because it aggressively put the lie to the self-congratulatory lassitude of the 1970s.
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Their self congratulatory engineering nerdy smarts is starting to takeover from their hard working, smart deal structuring obsessively perfect consumer products that are simple.
Archive 2005-07-01
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It's so smug, so self-congratulatory, and revels in glorifying militaria.
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When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best friend from being exsanguinated to death?
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
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The general behavior of the sprinters - lording it over their opponents in a taunting and self-congratulatory manner - was the opposite of what the Olympics are supposed to be about: international friendship and solidarity.
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Since I was off yesterday and there was nothing on the telly I watched the self-congratulatory backslapping gathering in Trafalgar Square.
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When he entered the shop, the pharmacopolist was much surprised, and said, with a congratulatory grin at the great man, "Dear me, Squire O'Grady, I'm delighted to see you.
Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes
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Though given to bouts of rueful depression himself, he could only burlesque the spectacle of an artist's self-congratulatory struggles.
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The main weakness of the tradition is an attitude of campy superiority, one that can quickly become self-congratulatory.
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H. E. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Spain delivers his congratulatory speech at the inauguration ceremony of Airbus (Beijing) Engineering Centre.
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Strangely enough, it is rare for a toastmaster to actually give a toast but our current President, Tony O'Reilly, gave an excellent one in his congratulatory speech to Conor.
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I remember also his gracious, congratulatory speech to the assembled musicians at the end of the recording.
The Times Literary Supplement
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We evened out and we were flying, the wind smacked our faces and it hurt but somehow it felt congratulatory.
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It had long been the Governor's practice to send congratulatory letters to couples about to be married.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Inside the atmosphere was febrile and congratulatory.
Times, Sunday Times
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I remember also his gracious, congratulatory speech to the assembled musicians at the end of the recording.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The ‘fear’ argument is absurd, bathetic, and self-congratulatory.
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I suppose the look would be epitomised by the finalist who emerges from a particularly disastrous exam to be pelted with eggs and glitter by an over-zealous congratulatory crowd.
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With all the congratulatory backslapping and kudos for them filling the media, does no one stop to think about the total about-face that has been foisted on the membership of both parties.
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The critical judgments are venturesomely banal ( "In countless variations, both fictional and dramatic, he studies illusions destined sooner or later to be shattered against the trivialities of everyday life"), and the psychological probings, full of self-congratulatory assumptions about Chekhov's motivations, unconsciously resemble, at times, Nabokov's parody of the "scholar" who writes the bogus preface to Lolita.
Short Reviews
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It is less churchy, less self-congratulatory and more open than another county - Cambridgeshire - that I know well.
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Hiking out, we talked about our ascent of the northwest buttress of Cloud Peak, trying to sound congratulatory.
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This deal will confirm the perception that Senators are clubby, timid, and self-congratulatory.
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People near and far are deluged with congratulatory messages over the telephones.
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There is a brief production featurette, which is mostly self-congratulatory blather.
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To complement the unveiling of the work, the centre has produced a self-congratulatory brochure.
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Prime Minister John Major also sent a congratulatory message to the awards ceremony.
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These types of self-congratulatory remarks are commonplace and formulaic.
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the usual congratulatory crowd was conspicuously absent
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There was a congratulatory phone call when I got the part.
The Sun
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How out of character for him to say anything but the most self-congratulatory - no, make that "ejaculatory" - self-absorbed crap!
City of Hooters?
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On March 26, 2011, Chinese President Hu Jintao exchanged congratulatory messages with his Cameroonian counterpart Paul Biya to mark the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries.
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He could see similarities in the way I fought and was very magnanimous to me, sending me congratulatory messages and notes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Across the wide marble hall their parents talked with the Wintertons, who were in a self-congratulatory mood.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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I already had floods of congratulatory cards and letters pouring in from the public.
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That kind of self-congratulatory showmanship doesn't sit well with me.
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A comedian travel-documentarian who is not patronising, smug, self-congratulatory or obstructive.
Times, Sunday Times
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She is a reluctant celebrity, finding extreme discomfort in the self-congratulatory world of literary awards.
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British Deputy Prime Minster John Prescott sent a congratulatory letter to the company.
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Would that a smidgeon of that fun had rubbed off on this self-congratulatory tome.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the same day, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his Malian counterpart, Moctar Ouane, also exchanged congratulatory messages on the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties.
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The director does a slow, mildly informative commentary, which is slightly self-congratulatory.
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Inside the atmosphere was febrile and congratulatory.
Times, Sunday Times
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The main prize is personal, hand written greeting, in French, from Monsieur K, plus a slightly used book from my personal library and congratulatory note ..
The 50.000+ hit awards « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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The bride sits in state and receives the congratulatory visits of her relatives and friends, and after the actual ceremony is over, the newly-married couple sit on a seat raised above the guests, and the sirih and betel-nut are largely chewed.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
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a congratulatory telegram
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Worse still, when he took Neil Hawke's wicket to bring up his triple century of dismissals at The Oval he received congratulatory telegrams from all counties save his own and on his retirement four years later Yorkshire asked him to contribute £120 to the silver cruet costing £220 they had ordered for him as a leaving gift.
Fred Trueman: the good, the bad and the grouchy | Rob Bagchi
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On the same day, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi also exchanged congratulatory messages with his Sierra Leonean counterpart J. B. Dauda on the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties.
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The waitress brings over some congratulatory glasses of champagne, courtesy of the restaurant.
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When the Iraqi government took over formal control of Basra Province from the British military on Sunday, the Americans put out a congratulatory and supportive press release.
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He deleted this self-congratulatory elaboration, more than 25 words altogether.
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Seventies chanteuse Carly Simon wrote and performed the movie's cute folk-toned songs, and for the most part, they're catchier and way more fun than the big self-congratulatory burlesques of Disney's recent megamusicals.
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This sappy, sentimental, self-congratulatory awards show sums up much that's loathsome about America.
