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synonyms for laurels

  • acclaim
  • accolade
  • award
  • badge
  • bays
  • commendation
  • crown
  • decoration
  • distinction
  • fame
  • glory
  • gold
  • kudos
  • prestige
  • recognition
  • renown
  • reward
  • blue-ribbon
  • feather in cap
  • gold star
On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to laurels, such as: acclaim, accolade, award, badge, bays, and commendation.

antonyms for laurels

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  • blame
  • criticism
  • disapproval
  • lowliness
  • unimportance
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How to use laurels in a sentence

We shall, I know, emulate their steadfastness and achieve a result which will confer added laurels to French and British arms.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
Castiglione added to his laurels, for it was his handling of the artillery that enabled Augereau to win his great victory.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISON
The conflict was at an end, he was the victor in the fight, he could rest upon his laurels and take life easy.
MAN AND HIS ANCESTORCHARLES MORRIS
He was a general in the United States army, and won laurels in the Mexican war.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELL
No man of heathen antiquity is better known to us, and no man by pure genius ever won more glorious laurels.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IJOHN LORD
They parted; she to enter the house, he to make his way through the roses and laurels to the terrace at the back.
THE RAKE'S PROGRESSMARJORIE BOWEN
On the side of the garden facing the church, was a little entrance-gate, amid the clusters of laurels and other shrubs.
JOHNNY LUDLOW, FOURTH SERIESMRS. HENRY WOOD
I stood back amid the sheltering laurels, hardly daring to breathe.
JOHNNY LUDLOW, FOURTH SERIESMRS. HENRY WOOD
The Crown retired from the suit with a stet processus, and Mr. Bradlaugh was left with the laurels—and his costs.
REMINISCENCES OF CHARLES BRADLAUGHGEORGE W. FOOTE
Gliding out of the bushy laurels on one side the path, and planting herself right in front of us, came Ketira the gipsy.
JOHNNY LUDLOW, FOURTH SERIESMRS. HENRY WOOD
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WORDS RELATED TO LAURELS

  • approval
  • award
  • badge
  • decoration
  • distinction
  • honor
  • kudos
  • laurels
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