Crossword clues for congratulatory
congratulatory
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Congratulatory \Con*grat"u*la*to*ry\, a. Expressive of sympathetic joy; as, a congratulatory letter.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s; see congratulate + -ory.
Wiktionary
a. Serving to congratulate.
WordNet
adj. expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune; "a congratulatory telegram"; "the usual congratulatory crowd was conspicuously absent"; "a gratulatory address" [syn: gratulatory]
Usage examples of "congratulatory".
Isabella and I stood beside Orkney, looking at the sweating, tossing, skittering two-year-old and making consoling and congratulatory remarks, none of which seemed to please.
The police got ready, the gambling houses got ready, and the papers set up congratulatory editorials in advance.
Council and in the salons of the nobility, and the disappointed great ladies from the neighboring palaces were calling, with curious questions decorously dressed in congratulatory form.
Chapter 49 He finished the final bars of the Pathetique and allowed himself a congratulatory smile.
Both successes were reported by telex to New Jersey and a congratulatory message came back promptly from Sam Hawthorne.
OVER A TWO-YEAR PERIOD I RECEIVED countless letters from Joel, including Christmas cards and a congratulatory greeting after I became a father for the first time.
He returned the smile and came damned close to giving her a congratulatory hug, which was definitely not part of the agenda.
He looked from the Hexenmeister to Evalen Kerys-Andrethe, and his hand came down on my shoulder in a congratulatory slap.
Much to the astonishment of most of the on-lookers hed refused the night before to join the congratulatory toast to Thomas as James broke out a fresh bottle of brandy.
The impression that she had behaved courageously in peril was rapidly increased as the story was repeated by one and another, and she received several congratulatory visits in the afternoon from her lady acquaintances.
Overhead the fire-lizards flew in congratulatory circles, alternately chirping or expelling flame, their eyes whirling bright blue with approval.
After Billy and Leon exchanged congratulatory bear hugs, Geneva embraced Billy, giving him a big kiss and asked “.
Fitz was getting his mice now from a cage trap the Hotel Kraft had obligingly let him set in its kitchen, and he had memorized enough additional Italian to shout seductive come-ons and congratulatory payoffs.
The day after she made detective, she was called into the DCI's office for a congratulatory chat, and offered the 'perfect' post: co-ordinating the division's ethnic minorities liaison efforts.
The Deceiver had time for a look of true astonishment, and then, with a congratulatory tip of the head to Thorn, that false face began to laugh.