Word Finder - applauded

definition

To express approval (of something) by clapping the hands.

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After the performance, the audience applauded for five minutes.

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To praise, or express approval for something or someone.

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Although we don't like your methods, we applaud your motives.

I applauded her idea.

Innocent was inclined to temporize, whilst the Welsh chieftains, and especially Gwenwynwyn of Powys, loudly applauded Gerald's action, but Llewelyn ap Iorwerth himself prudently held aloof from the controversy.

A shabby compound of brute force and imposture, the 18th Brumaire was nevertheless condoned, nay applauded, by the French nation.

Subsequently he served in the French army under Turenne, and in the Spanish under Conde, and was applauded by both commanders for his brilliant personal courage.

This party used Vergniaud, whose lofty and serene ideas they applauded and travestied in action.

Spanish counsels were applauded and neglected, and the Spaniards soon departed.

They applauded all his tricks and at the end of the performance begged him earnestly not to go away again and leave them.

The changes were not applauded by all the fans.

No serious mutinies have ever occurred in the Italian army, and the only results of the propaganda were occasional meetings of hoohgans, where Hervist sentiments were expressed and applauded, and a few minor disturbances among reservists unexpectedly called back to the colors.

Yet the most enlightened of Peter's contemporaries approved of and applauded his violence; some of them firmly believed that his most energetic measures were not violent enough.

When the credits rolled, audiences stood and applauded until the lights came on.

In the French Corps Legislatif, also, the vice-president, Forgade la Roquette, referred to his death, and warm expressions of esteem were repeated and applauded on every side.

Whatever other elements may mingle with and dignify war, this at least is never absent; and however reluctantly men may enter into war, however conscientiously they may endeavour to avoid it, they must know that when the scene of carnage has once opened, these things must be not only accepted and condoned, but stimulated, encouraged and applauded.

Prince Schwarzenberg assumed the government of the empire with dictatorial power; and, in spite of what Palmerston termed his " judicious bottle-holding," the movement he had encouraged and applauded, but to which he could give no material aid, was everywhere subdued.

But he had also been put into the ministry by the party of the Politiques, who had terminated the civil wars, acclaimed Henry IV., applauded the Protestant alliance, and by the mouth of Miron, president of the third estate, had in 1614 proclaimed its intention to take up the national tradition once more.

Mr Chamberlain's speech, in answer to what had been intended as a contemptuous rebuke, was universally applauded.

While Dean failed to read the correlation, he applauded the act and kept quiet as all four looked up at the high ceiling, nearly covered in thumb-tacked bills.

He politely applauded Martha's bravery and pontificated a bit about the dangers of investigating abandoned mines, but the expected sparkle wasn't there.

The lucky person was Jack Burgess who also was warmly applauded by the audience.

The firemen were heartily applauded on their smart performance.

The high turnout, attitude, passion, enthusiasm, patience, tolerance and orderly conduct of the Ghanaian voter are applauded.

He applauded the police when they held captive over 2000 anti-capitalist demonstrators together for over 8 hours on the streets of London.

The proposal for the recognition of existing teaching excellence is warmly applauded.

The thinly veiled critique of western multinationals ' policies in Asia should also be applauded.

City fans applauded it then serenaded back to halfway with chants of " you fat b*stard " .

Niccolini blasted tyranny in his tragedies, the novelist Guerrazzi re-evoked the memories of the last struggle for Florentine freedom in LAssedio di Firenze, and Verdis operas bristled with political double entendres which escaped the censor but were understood and applauded by the audience.

Demosthenes had dreamed the night before that he and Archias were competing for a prize as tragic actors; the house applauded Demosthenes; but his chorus was shabbily equipped, and Archias gained the prize.

At Marseilles they performed her murder in a curiously open manner, seeming to think the deed would be applauded in a Christian country.

City fans applauded it then serenaded back to halfway with chants of " you fat b*stard ".

Michelle was applauded for pairing the company's sensibly priced green leather gloves with her high-end designer coat.

Moreover, Biscotti's Kate Mack brand is responsible for some of the most delightful and highly applauded swimwear items in girls' fashion.

I applauded this law, because as I have said before, to leave a dog in a hot car can kill them within twenty minutes.

Well, hard numbers are difficult to come by, but most, particularly parents, can agree that the company efforts should be applauded.

This is clearly an attempt to bring size into the mainstream and many women noted and applauded Glamour for so doing.

While Glamour is applauded for its good work, there are those who comment that Renn can hardly be considered a woman of size and it is only in the twisted logic of the modeling world that she's anything other than normal.

The Drop Ship video game for the Sony PlayStation 2 is often applauded for its fantastic realism and utter complexity.

Brawl is widely applauded as being of the best rated Wii games available on the system.

The battle system isn't that much of a challenge most of the time (unless you beat it and unlock the Ultra Hard mode), but the design of the game is something to be applauded.

In fact, the version of Tetris on the original Nintendo Entertainment System is widely applauded as one of the best iterations in the series, thanks to its colorful graphics and addicting soundtrack.

For Street Fighter IV, many gamers have applauded the build quality of the Mad Catz FightStick Tournament Edition.

It is widely applauded as one of the best smartphones on the market today, easily holding its own against the iPhone and BlackBerry platforms.

So wear this color when you'll be applauded for your intrepid fashion sense as opposed to your flagrant desire to be noticed.

When kids get a chance to see a sticker, or a smiley face beside their name and activity, they feel the same instant gratification adults feel when they're applauded for their efforts.

The multi-racial core families were highly applauded on daytime television, but they were also joined by a supernatural element in the form of Tabitha Lenox played by Juliet Mills.

Often, the arrival of a new writing team is applauded, particularly if the show is suffering from a creative slump.

When characters can loathe a character's actions, yet still love the character (such as is the case with Jack Abbott) then the writers must be applauded for doing such a fantastic job.

The outrageously complex Amor Real has been applauded for masterfully weaving multiple storylines so skillfully that it's impossible not to get hooked.

But in this instance, she explained the circumstances and all the women applauded.

Feminists have both applauded and condemned her use of overt sexuality.

For his part, Lambert pointed out that he did what female performers are applauded for doing every day.