verb
- present participle of panegyrize; to praise someone or something extravagantly or formally
Usage: formal; often implies excessive or insincere praise
Examples
- The speaker spent the entire ceremony panegyrizing the retiring director.
- Critics accused the biographer of panegyrizing her subject rather than offering objective analysis.
- He was panegyrizing the company's achievements in front of the board of directors.
- The newspaper was panegyrizing the new policy without examining its potential drawbacks.
- Rather than panegyrizing the past, we should focus on future improvements.
- She found herself panegyrizing her mentor's work at the academic conference.