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transitive verb

[with object] formal

Praise (a person or their achievements) highly, especially in a public context.
‘the obituary lauded him as a great statesman and soldier’
- ‘I imagine he's out there drawing cartoons somewhere or painting paintings, but no one's beating his door down lauding him as the great artist that he is.’
- ‘He'd been a perfect gentleman, lauding me with compliments, calling when he said he would.’
- ‘Well those who protect this system of conservatism and corporatism love lauding us with such flowery titles.’
- ‘In the long term, in paradise, but also in the short term, as others from church lauded me for my suffering.’
- ‘Now she is lauded as the beloved elder stateswoman of the tournament.’
- ‘In the Commons, she was extravagantly lauded for her honesty, integrity, humanity.’
- ‘I don't know much about this director, but I hear he is highly lauded in certain circles.’
- ‘Ironically, when a person is able to maintain a reputation for honesty, he or she is lauded.’
- ‘For this he was lauded by the international business press and Washington.’
- ‘Their achievements will be lauded in the hills around Killawalla for many years.’
- ‘It deserves to be lauded and praised as much as it deserves to be scrutinized and picked apart.’
- ‘He had sort of a cult following him, admiring and lauding his every action.’
- ‘The British public are notoriously fickle about their celebrities - bullying them one minute, lauding them the next.’
- ‘We took them out and carefully replaced them where we found them and ended the matter with suitable speeches, lauding ourselves for our great achievement.’
- ‘If these people wished to laud him, they were welcome to it - he would simply sit and enjoy the rather wonderful irony.’
- ‘As a reward, I will mention your pasta-sauce-making attempt on the mainpage and laud you and revere you for all to see.’
- ‘The awards laud achievements in commercial, dramatic, and documentary film and television.’
- ‘It may seem that I am justifying or lauding the attack.’
- ‘Which is why both these films had critics lauding them’
- ‘What about the gifts in cash and kind reporters on the business pages are liable to receive for lauding a particular scrip or company?’
praise, extol, hail, applaud, acclaim, commend, admire, approve of, make much of, sing the praises of, lionize, speak highly of, pay homage to, pay tribute to, eulogize, sing paeans to
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