laudatory [adjective]: expressing praise.
Example: Court poets were expected to compose laudatory poems about their patrons.
Related words: laudatorily [adverb]
Synonyms: acclamatory, admiring, adulatory, celebratory, commendatory, complimentary, encomiastic, eulogizing, extolling, panegyrical, praising
Antonyms: belittling, blaming, captious, castigating, caviling, censorious, condemnatory, critical, derogatory, detracting, disparaging, reproachful
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