Congratulatory in a sentence as an adjective

He grinned, and said in a congratulatory tone, "you actually used Google Spreadsheets!

Maybe after 7 days straight of successful wake ups, the user sends a FB message that is congratulatory.

It is depressing to me that a community as smart as this is so congratulatory of such inch-deep stuff.

To starting this post with, "I hate to disturb you when youre playing SimCity," is so gross, self congratulatory, and not contrite.

The problem is that it is fluffy, and self-congratulatory: it just pats us on the back and says, what we do in our spare time is the future.

Most of the "life hacker" type posts I see are self-congratulatory pop-psychology.

[0]I can't believe this type of self-congratulatory pseudo-economic article hits the front page of HN.

> Why would he provide fodder to Google Helpouts product managers?Because the article has no actual content and sounds like self-congratulatory fluff.

It's mostly a self-congratulatory piece written by someone who apparently thinks that startups are some sort of hipster/fashion movement.

The saturated, self-congratulatory, better-than-thou crowd that is smug about their income, prospects and worth.

Thats all?Every corporate mythology has some kind of self congratulatory mythos about being the elite of the elite, perfection on earth.

>I also think they were surprised that the inventor of #4,555,755 was funny, theatrical, and cleverI respect Rob as a programmer, but that came off as a little too self congratulatory.

That is the vomitous self-congratulatory thing I've ever read and what I've come to expect from our multi-millionare South African marketing overlord.

Not because some nebulous and self-congratulatory definition of "geek" would theoretically like it.

The percentage of art qua art that is ******** pretension simply used as a signalling device for an in-crowd of self-congratulatory people is not 100%.But it's also not 0%.Fortunately, I don't need to care.

It's exactly this kind of self-congratulatory ******** that produces this community's inch-deep intellectual culture.

On subreddits with the most passive style of moderation, the comment threads are a self-congratulatory shouting match where any contradictory information is shouted down regardless of its merit.

Every profession I have even a passing familiarity with is absolutely chockers with self-congratulatory fluff.

So you'll throw it out and run into all the same issues on your rewrite and your code will end up just as opaque, but you'll understand it now so you'll think it's brilliant, and then you'll write self-congratulatory blog posts about how great you are and how terrible everyone else is, blissfully oblivious that in 3 months, a new developer will take on the project and rewrite it and write the same exact blog post out of imperious disgust for your work.

Congratulatory definitions

adjective

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"

See also: gratulatory