Definition of "gratulatory" [grat•u•la•to•ry]

• Congratulatory (adjective)

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• "Ruby herself had taught the girl this accomplishment -- rare enough at the time -- and Mary Jane handled it gingerly, beginning each sentence in a whisper, as if awed by her own intrepidity, and ending each in a kind of gratulatory cheer."
• "Pouring out a remarkably viscous mixture of irrelevance and self-gratulatory dimestore rhetoric, the racist National Post blogger "Raphael Alexander" (not his real name) takes a poke at me for my remarks about Michael Coren yesterday."
• "It did, after all, give some readers an opportunity for an orgy of self-gratulatory principle-mongering."