0 expressing or offering praise, approval, or pleasure, often because someone has done or achieved something special: --
I shall also dispense with my congratulatory and craven remarks about the great improvement to our licensing laws.
There will still be an opportunity for congratulatory speeches after the election and for some of the ceremonial surrounding the election to be retained.
I understand that many of the speeches that we have heard so far have been somewhat congratulatory about the fact that we have got here.
I can be more congratulatory about clause 4.
I hope to make some constructive points which will not always be congratulatory.
Can he get them to realise that their present, somewhat narcissistic practice of congratulatory self-contemplation is not enough?
It does not treat us all as congratulatory aristocrats, lawgivers within nature, members of a band apart.
In this way the story is congratulatory, reflecting well upon his physical and mental state.
