0 to praise:
The German leadership lauded the Russian initiative.
1 to praise someone or something:
If clients feel better after using the language of inner reference, we might well laud it for accomplishing its therapeutic aims.
But the same dogged, defiant folk, lauded as type characters, might also threaten to delay essential change.
In contrast to the sanguine perspective on cognitive differences in schizophrenia lauded above, we propose that there is less here than meets the eye.
When we look at the character of the forgiver we laud her benevolence and magnanimity.
These lauded qualities suggest a kind of ideal masculinity other than the 'beef and brawn' ideal discussed above.
How was this violence to be contained if such values were lauded as the bedrock of the political and social order?
The morals and virtues that it ostensibly taught lauded behaviour that was submissive, particularly on the part of women and the young.
Essential to this project was the need to form a modernist culture that lauded matrimony, domesticity, and motherhood.