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Laudable vs Laudatory

Laudableadjective

worthy of high praise

Full entry for Laudable

Laudatoryadjective

full of or giving praise

Full entry for Laudatory

The difference

Laudable means deserving praise. Laudatory means expressing praise. A laudable effort; a laudatory review.

How to keep them apart

The effort is laudable; the review that praises it is laudatory. One earns praise, the other gives it.

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