Expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune.
1 The tone of the manifestation was good-humoured, but it was not gratulatory .
2 When the disputation terminated, one of the candidates pronounced a Latin ' gratulatory oration.'
3 And Chum left the ring, to find a score of gratulatory hands stretched forth to pat him.
4 It read, "All local papers out highly gratulatory references your efforts to punish guilty parties."
5 Therefore, the "our friend" dispersed a common gratulatory glow.
6 Our very loves, and these in full and generous intimacy, must be condemned as unseeing, self-regarding, and self - gratulatory .
7 The Countess went to shake her brother's hand, and with a very gratulatory visage, said through her half-shut teeth.
8 When, after this outbreak, Lucia's face went down upon her hands, Mrs. Costello could not resist a little self - gratulatory smile.
9 He now diminished the number of gratulatory allusions to his own career, and made appropriate and affecting reference to his predecessor.
10 Heaven knows I am not penning these lines in any self - gratulatory frame of mind- Iwhowrite from this happy haven among the hills.
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