Congratulatory

You know, people have been very congratulatory, which is good. ❋ Unknown (2004)

With a touch of cynicism he recalled the congratulatory messages -- the very first it had carried. ❋ Alan Sullivan (1907)

The governor's remarks came hours after President Barack Obama made what the White House described as a congratulatory call to Quinn for winning the close Democratic primary. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Don't worry, it will be less 'congratulatory' and more religious we promise. ❋ Jen (2009)

I figure their chances, without people caring, are 'an ice cube's chance in hell.'which aligns the narrator in a way with the reader, but doesn't dislocate the meaning, nor offer a kind of congratulatory "aha" moment. ❋ Lemon Hound (2006)

My grandfather found out after all his friends had bought him "congratulatory" rounds at the corner bar. ❋ Partygirl (2000)

But these Academical Jubilees have usually been look'd upon as a kind of congratulatory Compliment to the Accession of every new Prince to the Throne, and generally, as such, have attended them. ❋ Unknown (1889)

Vechten, who had found Ben at Lovejoy's Hotel, and still remained with him in New York, wrote to her brother a kind of congratulatory letter, mingled with sickly sentimental regrets for the "heart-broken, deserted and now departed Marie." ❋ Mary Jane Holmes (1866)

It's not quite the same as having someone else to high-five with, but some kind of congratulatory action is in order. ❋ Unknown (2010)

BEIRUT, (PIC) -- Thabet organization has rejected a phrase by American president Barack Obama in his "congratulatory" message to Israel on the 62nd anniversary of its establishment on the usurped land of Palestine in which he said that Palestine is the historical homeland of the Jewish people. ❋ Dannyd (2010)

In the fine print, the WaPo made it clear that only "congratulatory" messages would be accepted. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Without some injection of cynicism these award shows and there's enough of them, and they go on long enough too would be -- and often are - self-congratulatory borefests,says Will Noble in The Prague Post. ❋ Danny Groner (2011)

Without some injection of cynicism these award shows and there's enough of them, and they go on long enough too would be -- and often are - self-congratulatory borefests, says Will Noble in The Prague Post. ❋ Danny Groner (2011)

By way of Cakeadelic, whose humility burns with the intensity of a thousand self-congratulatory suns: ❋ Unknown (2010)

What is truly terrible is there is no fix for this and Lenovo – despite giving themselves self congratulatory pats on the back every few months in their Design Matters blog – are keeping completely silent on the issue. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the wake of a popular local triumph, amid all the congratulatory backslapping in the winner's enclosure, there was one conspicuous absentee: Ballabriggs, the winning horse. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The ideas included dressing professional ballet dancers in gorilla suits to perform Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" complete with a congratulatory bunch of bananas presented to the prima ballerina at the end, or filling a bathtub with suds, a hapless woman played by Ms. Brand, and a bewildering variety of people and objects emerging from the foam. ❋ Bruce Bennett (2011)