I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a critic praises sth
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The play was highly praised by critics and the public.
damn (sb/sth) with faint praise (= show that you think someone or something is not good by only praising them a little )
deserve credit/praise
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The team played really well and they deserve credit for it.
fulsome gratitude/praise/tribute etc
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The book contains a fulsome dedication to his wife.
praise God
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They came to the church to praise God.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
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Francis Beckett's highly praised biography is now available in paperback for the first time.
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She also realizes the attorney, whom she highly praised , worked for relatively low rates.
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Jonathon Miller directed performances of Eugene Onegin and Rigoletto which were highly praised by critics and public.
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The painting of St Basil's Cathedral was highly praised .
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Sweetmeats, cakes or puddings follow ... the variety has been highly praised by our guests over the last five years.
widely
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It was widely praised , even in Nature, which might have been sceptical.
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The speech was widely praised for its brevity.
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Though widely praised when it began, the Baldrige Award has attracted increasing criticism-particularly from within the quality advocacy community.
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President Bush is being widely praised for his deft handling of the hostage crisis.
■ NOUN
courage
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He would not have gone to Munich himself, he said, but he praised Chamberlain's courage for acting differently.
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He lamented their losses, praised their courage , and attributed their lack of success to accidental causes.
sky
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Yet now he was praising her to the skies .
work
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We may praise the detailed work and massing of information, but we may sleep.
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What have I been praised for at work ?
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Equal praise: Cleveland County Council has been praised for its work in the equal opportunities field.
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His boss has praised his work on the estate, saying it shows the value of community policing.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be loud in your praise/opposition/support etc
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Nevertheless, both my master and Agrippa were loud in their praise of my martial prowess.
ecstatic review/praise/applause
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And another executioner earned the crowd's ecstatic applause when he beheaded two criminals with one blow!
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It received universally ecstatic reviews, and deservedly so.
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Now after ecstatic reviews it is playing to packed audiences in London.
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With Bley conducting and Paul Haines, the original librettist, as narrator, the opera was revived to ecstatic reviews.
high opinion/regard/praise etc
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He has the highest regard for his hamster-locating abilities.
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It was a display which earned high praise, not least from Coventry boss Bobby Gould.
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Perhaps surprisingly, the indications are that Offa continued to hold Canterbury in high regard.
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Surely the Buckleys have risen to higher station, or at least a higher opinion of themselves.
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This, however, is no indication that they have a particularly high opinion of the spiritual contribution of women.
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While I hold these scholars and practitioners in the highest regard, I have not relied exclusively on their work.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fire chiefs praised a 10-year-old girl who saved her brother's life yesterday.
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His column was a regular and highly praised feature of the newspaper.
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Local people were praised for their calm response to the crisis.
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The new freeway plan has been praised by local business leaders.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Andrews' ballet designs, created over eight months of intensive work, were much praised when premiered in Birmingham in June.
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Being able to praise yourself will give you power and control over your own life.
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He praised the soldiers for overcoming adverse conditions, including less-than-gourmet food and less-than-plush accommodations.
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I felt sick when she praised the lead, knowing that I wasn't really coping.
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Izanarni praises Izanagi, and he returns with praises for her, though it worries him that the woman spoke first.
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The couple denied the allegations, and the court heard they were once praised by social services for their fostering work.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
faint
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At the product's launch, the company took time out to damn 3Com's boundary routing scheme with faint praise .
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With these words of faint praise , Maskelyne tactfully conceded a few major flaws in the lunar distance method.
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If that seems like faint praise , you should read the dozen most recent books on Paradise Lost.
full
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Prince Charles is Patron of the Trust and is full of praise for its activities to date.
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And they were full of praise .
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The Chairman is full of praise for my erudition.
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Sir Philip, himself, is likewise full of praise for your son, for whom he has the highest regard.
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Guests were full of praise for the culinary delights, and the branch was able to add £527 to its funds.
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Even the mechanics had been full of praise .
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She introduced herself fully, giving her full praise names.
fulsome
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Colin was fulsome in his praise of the role of finance directors in delivering a near impossible set of financial reforms.
great
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The tea provided for them by the Dean came in for a great deal of praise .
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Beccaria's ideas had been fated to win great praise but achieve less by way of practical influence in the running of penal systems.
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But the greatest praise perhaps came from William Wordsworth, who wrote the epitaph for Green's gravestone.
high
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Down to nine men, our lads deserve the highest praise for a 3-3 draw.
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Those who did so received high praise: He asked me to be a team leader.
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Yet whatever Benn's shortcomings, he deserves high praise for the service he has performed for recent political history.
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Mintzberg deserves high praise for his perceptiveness in issuing these caveats about the widespread enthusiasm for the adhocracy arrangement.
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The firm which had fire-proofed the building got high praise for the containment of the blaze.
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Although his verbal craftsmanship deserves high praise , we do wonder about his motivation.
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The highest praise can be given to works which match up and accord with these.
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William Podolsky, an architect who serves on the neighborhood committee, has high praise for the process.
lavish
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The instrument more than justifies your lavish praise and I am delighted with it in every respect.
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Uncle Shim laid lavish praise on my parents for the quality of the food, the effort in preparation.
special
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How often is a child singled out for special praise at governors' meetings?
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I'd be hard pushed to single out any particular track for special praise .
■ VERB
deserve
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They deserve praise , at any rate, for what they have not done.
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Mintzberg deserves high praise for his perceptiveness in issuing these caveats about the widespread enthusiasm for the adhocracy arrangement.
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Down to nine men, our lads deserve the highest praise for a 3-3 draw.
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Although his verbal craftsmanship deserves high praise , we do wonder about his motivation.
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Yet whatever Benn's shortcomings, he deserves high praise for the service he has performed for recent political history.
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And Columbia records deserves praise for state-of-the- art packaging.
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Mr Rifkind will deserve warm praise if he can succeed where several incumbents have failed.
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But, in one respect at least, our glorious leader deserves rich praise .
draw
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The overall standard of all the entries in the competition drew praise from the judges.
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One example is Shirli-Ann Siddall, who has drawn much praise recently.
earn
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It was a display which earned high praise , not least from Coventry boss Bobby Gould.
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Conversely, if a person expects that meeting deadlines will not earn praise , he or she may not be as motivated.
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Verio also earned praise for growing through its 4,000 reseller partners around the world.
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In college, he continued to excel, earning praise in the classroom almost as often as on the basketball court.
give
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Some critics, however, still gave praise where praise was due.
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And in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy, for giving praise unto the Lord.
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So many detrimental things are written and said about our youth that for once let us give praise where it is due.
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Meese agreed, after giving Bork high praise .
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The manager was giving praise but in return was met with disappointment and a long face.
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The students completed their work in class with the teacher next to them, giving ample praise and encouragement.
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I bought the DesignaKnit 4 Professional some months back and I feel I have to give it nothing but praise .
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Enjoying rewards Following on from giving yourself praise is the idea of giving yourself credit and rewards.
heap
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He was so incredibly gracious in defeat, heaping praise upon Olson and the Arizona players.
offer
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And, of course, they were almost exclusively from fans offering their praise and support.
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Coach Flip Saunders had completed his postgame news conference, offering praise all around.
receive
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The Scribes loved to receive the praise of ordinary people.
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Mr Schwartz has received considerable praise in recent years for his acumen in building Loral through a series of strategic acquisitions.
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In fact we received a lot of praise .
sing
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They sang Communist songs of praise the whole day long and cursed the reactionaries with bloody curses.
singled
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How often is a child singled out for special praise at governors' meetings?
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The restoration was singled out for praise in 1986 when it was highly commended by the Association of Railway Preservation Societies.
win
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The crackdown has won wide praise .
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But while Mr Mitterrand won praise and respect abroad, he often drew sharp criticism at home, especially from conservative commentators.
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While Amis sold books, Powell won praise .
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Clinton won praise both for his education proposals and for the national dialogue on race that he has undertaken.
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Thanks to deft chairmanship and bluntness, he drew from it a respectable report that won praise for its forthrightness.
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Bagged it: An anti-litter campaign has won praise from the Tidy Britain Group.
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While his foreign policy was winning praise abroad, Gorbachev was coming under growing criticism at home.
write
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Even the exiled Bustamante wrote from Paris in praise of the president and the new administration.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be loud in your praise/opposition/support etc
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Nevertheless, both my master and Agrippa were loud in their praise of my martial prowess.
ecstatic review/praise/applause
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And another executioner earned the crowd's ecstatic applause when he beheaded two criminals with one blow!
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It received universally ecstatic reviews, and deservedly so.
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Now after ecstatic reviews it is playing to packed audiences in London.
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With Bley conducting and Paul Haines, the original librettist, as narrator, the opera was revived to ecstatic reviews.
heap praise/insults etc on sb
high opinion/regard/praise etc
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He has the highest regard for his hamster-locating abilities.
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It was a display which earned high praise, not least from Coventry boss Bobby Gould.
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Perhaps surprisingly, the indications are that Offa continued to hold Canterbury in high regard.
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Surely the Buckleys have risen to higher station, or at least a higher opinion of themselves.
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This, however, is no indication that they have a particularly high opinion of the spiritual contribution of women.
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While I hold these scholars and practitioners in the highest regard, I have not relied exclusively on their work.
sing sb's praises
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Craig adored Jane and would sing her praises to anyone who would listen.
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Diane really admires you - she's always singing your praises.
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Feminists have long sung the praises of writers such as Germaine Greer and Simone de Beauvoir.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She said you have talent, and that's high praise coming from a best-selling author like her.
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The charity has earned widespread praise for its work.
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The police deserve a lot of praise for the way they handled the situation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Douglas came in for much praise .
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In subtle ways, he seeks praise and affirmation from those he knows it's safe to trust.
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It turns out, however, the praise coming Bayless' way is well deserved.
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Mintzberg deserves high praise for his perceptiveness in issuing these caveats about the widespread enthusiasm for the adhocracy arrangement.
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Some critics, however, still gave praise where praise was due.
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The beauty or grandeur of nature may inspire praise .
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The power of praise is often overlooked.
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We allow our feelings to flow out towards him in adoration, confession, thanksgiving and praise .