complimentary
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Caruso was complimentary of the mayor’s leadership at the groundbreaking for the new center, which will replace one destroyed in the 2025 Palisades fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
"He was very complimentary and it sounds like he was actually watching it," Jamieson told BBC Sport Scotland.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
The benefits, like annual hotel credits, TSA PreCheck and a complimentary DoorDash DashPass membership, sounded great, but my college lifestyle didn’t justify using them.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
The subtler communication went both ways: Tehran’s allies were greeted with complimentary verses from the Quran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Though she called me “boy” so often, and with a carelessness that was far from complimentary, she was of about my own age.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Why, if I had an interest in your show I could fill your place with complimentaries 30 to the real people of Seaside Park.
From The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
Through some unaccountable oversight, they neglected to specially mark or punch these complimentaries.
From A Pirate of Parts by Richard Neville
"Now sure, Captain Jack, ye's always full of your complimentaries," replied the sutler, taking the bridle of her customer.
From The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper
That, sir, he has to shew here; and confirmed under the hands of the most skilful and cunning complimentaries alive: Please you read, sir.
From Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson
No a dime, he says; but he showed me a bunch of complimentaries and laughed and said he’d sell them cheap.
From The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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