to laud
32
7.7
- verb
- /lɔd/
- Formal
- First, I apologised, then I lauded him with praise.
- lauded policy
- much-lauded
- lauded leader
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Watch on YouTubeIncredibly, she then began to laud her father's treatment of women.
- Incredibly, she then began to laud her father's treatment of women.
- And you can be critically lauded.
- When you are professional athlete and you put your skills on public display, it's there to be publicly scrutinized or lauded.
- People will laud him, but then he seems completely oblivious because he's a celebrity and he's famous for being famous.
- But for the communal narcissist, being lauded and praised for their sacrifices and being held on a pedestal for being so giving is the win for them.
- The Jets draft was lauded by many as being an excellent draft and some people said, hey, you better be careful, The Jets are good now.
- So there's nothing wrong with, in fact it's lauded to be pulling people out of the flood.
- Fox has even run segments lauding the transing of kids so he not too not too long ago.
- But at the same time, nowadays it is, it's true, like you can, you know, just rampant camp capitalism and and selling out is is lauded.
- He's, you know, lauded filmmaker, of course, and but but so, you know, in that case, it kind of went One Direction.
Examples
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The critics will laud the artist for her innovative approach to painting.
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The U.S. administration can continue to laud democratic ideals in other countries through Voice of America broadcasts.
Academic text (2011) -
In that way, I figure, it would be dangerous to laud a child too much.
Fiction book (1992) -
Incredibly, she then began to laud her father's treatment of women.
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But what about the big and much-lauded British Museum project?
Academic text (2011) -
I'm an internationally lauded poet.
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Maryland is often lauded for being the first colony to pass legislation allowing freedom of religion.
Academic text (1999) -
The release of wolves into the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness was lauded as an environmental triumph.
Academic text (2000) -
People will laud him, but then he seems completely oblivious because he's a celebrity and he's famous for being famous.
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By contrast, Kip Klein, a Republican representative from nearby Marietta, lauded Miller's "political courage."
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
722
2.3
Show great respect to someone, often in public
381
1.0
To tell a person that you admire or approve of them
172
3.2
To show praise in public for a person or idea
170
2.1
To praise someone in public for something they did
156
4.1
To welcome or praise someone publicly and enthusiastically
102
1.6
To say something nice about someone or their work
85
4.4
To praise someone or something for good work
65
5.2
To make a person or thing seem better and more important than they really are
62
4.5
To praise someone in public with great excitement for their success
29
4.1
To say very good things about someone, often in public
19
7.2
To raise someone to a higher position or praise them strongly
18
7.5
To praise someone or something very much
8
4.1
Say strong good things about someone or something in public
7
4.5
Say very good things about someone or something
1
5.8
Say very good things about someone or something with strong feeling
1
4.0
To give a lot of praise, often more than needed
Antonyms
How Praising
65
5.2
- Formal
7
8.3
18
7.5
- Formal
32
7.7
85
4.4
381
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Laud comes from the Latin laudare, which means 'to praise'. You can see the same root in laudable, which means 'worthy of praise', so to laud someone is to praise them publicly.