complimentary
adjective
given free as a gift or courtesy.
complimentarily
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a word derived from
complimentary.
Example Sentences
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But the more foundational idea of a legal right to darkness — or, complimentarily, a right to starlight — has not been tested in courts.
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2025
Ledecky has a stroke modeled on Phelps’; he has described her, complimentarily, as a “stud.”
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2016
Eshah, is similarly used, not complimentarily, but in popular speech.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
There is a certain freshness and energy in the term, which gives it agreeableness; but it seems difficult, at first hearing, to use it complimentarily.
From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by John Ruskin
An appellation often erroneously given to North Americans in general, whereas it is strictly applicable to those of the New England states only; it is not used complimentarily in the back settlements.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
