gratulatory

How To Use gratulatory 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.
• Pouring out a remarkably viscous mixture of irrelevance and self-gratulatory dimestore rhetoric, the racist National Post blogger "Raphael Alexander" (not his real name) takes a poke at me for my remarks about Michael Coren yesterday. Archive 2009-04-01
• 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
• The father gave a chuckling, gratulatory laugh; drew a nickel from his pocket and laid it on the table. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
• 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.