lauding

• acclaiming
• accrediting
• admire
• adore
• adoring
• adulating
• applauding
• approve
• approving
• ballyhooing
• belauding
• bless
• blessing
• boost
• bravoing
• build up
• caroling
• carolling
• celebrate
• celebrating
• chanting
• cheering
• citing
• clapping
• commend
• commending
• compliment
• complimenting
• cracking up
• cry up
• deifying
• emblazoning
• endorsing
• eulogize
• eulogizing
• exalting
• extol
• extolling
• favoring
• flatter
• flattering
• glorify
• glorifying
• hailing
• hand it to
• honor
• hymn
• hymning
• idolizing
• indorsing
• magnify
• magnifying
• overpraising
• panegyrize
• pat on the back
• praising
• recommending
• renowning
• resounding
• revere
• reverence
• rhapsodizing
• saluting
• sing the praises of
• singing
• stroke
• supporting
• touting
• venerate
• worship
• worshiping
• worshipping

• abhor
• admonishing
• belittling
• blame
• blaming
• castigate
• castigating
• censure
• censuring
• chiding
• condemn
• criticize
• criticizing
• decrease
• denounce
• despise
• detest
• disallow
• disapprove
• discommending
• disparaging
• excoriating
• hate
• keelhauling
• knocking
• lambasting
• panning
• putting down
• rebuking
• refuse
• reprehending
• reprimanding
• reproaching
• reprobating
• reproving
• skewering
• slagging
• slamming
• vilifying

• verb
  1. To praise, to glorify.
• noun
  1. An act of giving praise.

• The community is constantly lauding his efforts to improve local infrastructure.
• She was seen lauding her colleagues for their hard work during the presentation.
• The press was lauding the artist's new exhibition for its creativity and boldness.
• He spent hours lauding the success of his team after the project was completed.
• The senator is lauding the new policies aimed at reducing environmental damage.

accepting

• abiding
• abject
• absorbing
• acceding
• acceptance
• acceptive
• acclaiming
• accord
• accounting
• accrediting
• acknowledgment
• acquiescence
• acquiescing
• acquiring
• acquisition
• admiring
• admission
• admitting
• adopting
• adoption
• adoring
• adulatory
• advisory
• advocating
• affirmation
• affirming
• agreeing
• agreement
• allowing
• altering
• amenable
• applauding
• applying
• appreciative
• approbatory
• appropriation
• approval
• approving
• arrogation
• artless
• assent
• assenting
• assuming
• assurance
• attending
• attentive
• attestation
• authenticating
• authentication
• authorization
• authorizing
• avowal
• backing
• bearing
• becoming
• belief
• believing
• biding
• bleak
• blue
• born yesterday
• bringing in
• brokenhearted
• brooking
• buying
• capitulating
• certain
• certainty
• championing
• cheerless
• childlike
• collecting
• comfortless
• commendatory
• commending
• compliance
• complimentary
• concentrating
• concluding
• confidence
• confident
• confiding
• confirming
• conjecture
• consent
• consenting
• convinced
• cooperation
• corroborating
• corroboration
• countenancing
• credit
• crediting
• credulous
• crestfallen
• cynical
• dark
• deducing
• dejected
• demonstration
• dependence
• dependent
• depressed
• depressing
• desolate
• despairing
• desperate
• despondent
• disappointed
• disconsolate
• discouraged
• disheartened
• dismal
• dispirited
• doleful
• down
• downcast
• downhearted
• drawing
• drear
• dreary
• dupable
• earning
• easy mark
• embracing
• employing
• encomiastic
• endorsement
• endorsing
• enduring
• enjoying
• espousing
• eulogistic
• evidence
• expectation
• faith
• falling for
• fancy
• favorable
• favoring
• flattering
• forlorn
• friendly
• funereal
• gaining
• gathering
• getting
• gloomy
• glum
• go ahead
• going
• going for
• good
• grab
• green
• green light
• grieving
• growing
• guess
• guileless
• gullable
• gullible
• hacking
• hagiographic
• hagiographical
• handling
• hangdog
• having
• having faith
• hearkening
• heartbroken
• heartsick
• heartsore
• heeding
• holding with
• hopeful
• hopeless
• hunch
• hypothesis
• idolizing
• inconsolable
• indorsing
• inference
• inferring
• inheriting
• innocent
• interested
• joyless
• kind
• laudative
• laudatory
• lauding
• lenient
• liking
• living with
• low
• low-spirited
• magnanimous
• making
• meeting
• melancholy
• merciful
• miserable
• mournful
• naive
• nod
• obtaining
• okay
• okaying
• open
• open-minded
• overconfident
• overtrusting
• panegyrical
• passage
• passing
• paying attention
• permission
• permitting
• pessimistic
• pocketing
• posit
• positive
• postulate
• postulation
• practicing
• praiseful
• praising
• premise
• presuming
• presumption
• presupposition
• proof
• proving
• ratifying
• reaccepting
• reassuming
• receipt
• receiving
• reception
• recognition
• recommendatory
• recommending
• reliance
• reliant
• resigned
• respectful
• respecting
• sad
• saddened
• saluting
• sanction
• sanctioning
• secure
• securing
• seizure
• setting store by
• setting store on
• shot
• shot in the dark
• shouldering
• simple
• sneaking suspicion
• sorrowful
• sorry
• stab
• stamp of approval
• standing
• standing by
• standing for
• sticking out
• stock
• stomaching
• store
• submitting to
• substantiation
• succumbing
• suffering
• support
• supporting
• supportive
• supposal
• supposing
• supposition
• sure
• surmise
• suspicion
• sustaining
• swallow whole
• swallowing
• sweating out
• sympathetic
• taken in
• takeover
• taking
• taking kindly to
• taking on
• taking over
• taking up
• testament
• testimonial
• testimony
• testing
• theorization
• theory
• thesis
• tolerating
• toughing it out
• trustful
• trusting
• uncritical
• understanding
• undertaking
• undoubting
• unhappy
• unquestioning
• unsophisticated
• unsuspecting
• unsuspicious
• unwary
• upholding
• usurpation
• validating
• verification
• verifying
• visa
• wailing
• warm
• warrant
• warranting
• wearing
• weeping
• welcoming
• witness
• woebegone
• woeful
• working
• worshipful
• worshiping
• worshipping
• wretched
• yes

acclaiming

• accrediting
• adulating
• applauding
• approving
• ballyhooing
• belauding
• bravoing
• celebrating
• cheering
• clapping
• commending
• cracking up
• deifying
• emblazoning
• endorsing
• eulogizing
• extolling
• favoring
• flattering
• glorifying
• hailing
• idolizing
• indorsing
• lauding
• magnifying
• overpraising
• praising
• recommending
• saluting
• singing
• supporting
• touting

accrediting

• accepting
• acclaiming
• acknowledging
• adulating
• affirming
• allowing
• applauding
• approbating
• approving
• ascribing
• assigning
• associating
• attaching
• attributing
• authorizing
• ballyhooing
• belauding
• blaming
• blessing
• bravoing
• canonizing
• celebrating
• certifying
• chalking up
• charging
• chartering
• cheering
• clapping
• clearing
• commending
• commissioning
• confirming
• connecting
• cracking up
• credentialing
• credentialling
• crediting
• deifying
• emblazoning
• empowering
• enabling
• endorsing
• enfranchising
• entitling
• eulogizing
• extolling
• favoring
• finalizing
• flattering
• formalizing
• glorifying
• hailing
• homologating
• idolizing
• imputing
• inaugurating
• indorsing
• inducting
• initialing
• initialling
• initiating
• installing
• instating
• investing
• lauding
• laying
• legalizing
• letting
• licencing
• licensing
• linking
• magnifying
• okaying
• overpraising
• passing
• permitting
• praising
• privileging
• putting down
• qualifying
• ratifying
• reapproving
• recommending
• referring
• rubber-stamping
• saluting
• sanctifying
• sanctioning
• signing
• singing
• supporting
• swearing in
• touting
• validating
• vesting
• warranting

ballyhooing

• acclaiming
• advancing
• advertising
• announcing
• applauding
• asserting
• averring
• barking
• blaring
• blazing
• blazoning
• blowing up
• boosting
• broadcasting
• claiming
• commending
• complimenting
• cracking up
• crying up
• declaring
• endorsing
• eulogizing
• extolling
• glorifying
• hailing
• heralding
• hyping
• indorsing
• lauding
• laying down
• magnifying
• making out
• merchandising
• merchandizing
• offering
• pitching
• plugging
• praising
• proclaiming
• promoting
• pronouncing
• publicizing
• publishing
• pushing
• recommending
• reviewing
• selling
• talking up
• touting
• trumpeting
• tub-thumping

egoistic

• arrogant
• assumptive
• assured
• biggety
• biggity
• bigheaded
• blusterous
• blustery
• boastful
• bombastic
• braggart
• bragging
• braggy
• bumptious
• cavalier
• chesty
• cocky
• complacent
• conceited
• condescending
• confident
• consequential
• disdainful
• domineering
• egocentric
• egoistical
• egomaniacal
• egotistic
• egotistical
• fastuous
• haughty
• hifalutin
• high-and-mighty
• high-handed
• high-hat
• highfalutin
• holier-than-thou
• huffy
• imperious
• important
• inner-directed
• lofty
• lordly
• masterful
• narcissistic
• overconfident
• overweening
• patronizing
• peremptory
• pompous
• pontifical
• presuming
• presumptuous
• pretentious
• prideful
• proud
• puffed up
• self-absorbed
• self-adulatory
• self-affected
• self-applauding
• self-asserting
• self-assertive
• self-assured
• self-centered
• self-complacent
• self-conceited
• self-concerned
• self-confident
• self-congratulatory
• self-contented
• self-directed
• self-dramatizing
• self-engrossed
• self-glorifying
• self-gratulatory
• self-important
• self-indulgent
• self-infatuated
• self-interested
• self-involved
• self-loving
• self-obsessed
• self-opinionated
• self-oriented
• self-pleased
• self-preoccupied
• self-promoting
• self-regarding
• self-satisfied
• self-seeking
• self-serving
• selfish
• smug
• snobbish
• snobby
• snooty
• solipsistic
• stuck-up
• supercilious
• superior
• swaggering
• swellheaded
• toploftical
• toplofty
• uppish
• uppity
• vain
• vainglorious

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