belaud
Americanverb (used with object)
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I cannot understand those folk who sniff at the English music-hall and belaud the Parisian shows.
From Nights in London by Thomas Burke
This is not to belaud the present system, any more than it is optimistic to say this is the best of all possible worlds.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
Crassus on this occasion, between whom and Cicero there was never much friendship, took occasion to belaud the late great Consul on account of his Catiline successes.
From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Anthony Trollope
What amazed me was the calm with which these folks gathered together and commenced to belaud their noble selves, their country, and their "institootions" and everything else that was theirs.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
How shall the perplexed navigator steer his course when monitors in office accuse him on the one hand of lax precision throughout, and belaud him on the other for careful observance of detail?
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
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