praise
noun
the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
praiser
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a word derived from
praise.
Example Sentences
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The passive-aggressive metabolism praiser: “You’re so lucky you can eat ALL that.”
From Time ● Jul. 11, 2015
He was a grand cutter of clutter and reiteration, praiser of the lapidary phrase.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2014
No praiser of times past, McConaughy thinks U. S. reverence for the Founding Fathers much out of place, dubs them the "Funding Fathers."
From Time Magazine Archive
No mere praiser of times past, and not willing to go on forever writing melodramas of an earlier day, in Roll River he has come to grips with his own age.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every now and then it becomes necessary to deal faithfully with that immortal type of person, the praiser of the past at the expense of the present.
From Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women by Arnold Bennett
