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And yet those very same employees who once heaped praise on him will be too busy eulogizing some new figure to stop and examine their sense of judgement.† (source)

Various middleweight preachers showed up to eulogize him, led by the church's eloquent head pastor, Walter Fauntroy, a longtime aide to Dr. Martin Luther King and a Congressional representative from the District for twenty years.† (source) Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen, 1998

The South I was born in was eulogized by pay-as-you-pray TV preachers, enclosed in a coffin of light blue aluminum siding and laid to rest in a polyester suit, from Wal-Mart.† (source)

Hero cop, they were eulogizing him.† (source) James Patterson, 1st to Die, 2001

Others eulogized this process as the mysterious workings of genius, but Poincaré was not content with such a shallow explanation.† (source)

When parents and grandparents died, Padre Esteban could eulogize that they lived good lives and made beautiful families to carry on the Lord's work.† (source)

They want him to go on television and eulogize his dead, to make a statement to the city with his best public face and deny any involvement with what Eduardo Fermin was allegedly doing after hours; that he had no idea of his running whatever's been rumored, a pyramidal laundering scheme, a people's lottery, an Asian numbers game.† (source) Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker, 1995

Every man in the chapel hoped that when his hour came he, too, would be eulogized, which is to say forgiven, and that all of his lapses, greeds, errors, and strayings from the truth would be invested with coherence and looked upon with charity.† (source)

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Despite the polls, with six months until the election, It's a little early to eulogize the candidate.

I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me, because there's no one I'd rather have ....† (source)

Of course, the servants' hall at Darlington Hall, like any servants' hall anywhere, was obliged to receive employees of varying degrees of intellect and perception, and I recall many a time having to bite my lip while some employee and at times, I regret to say, members of my own staff — excitedly eulogized the likes of, say, Mr Jack Neighbours.† (source)

Generally the words were eulogistic in the extreme but occasionally they were not.† (source)

Eugene would find his father, leaning perilously on Jannadeau's dirty glass showcase, or on the creaking little fence that marked him off, talking politics, war, death, and famine, denouncing the Democrats, with references to the bad weather, taxation, and soupkitchens that attended their administration, and eulogizing all the acts, utterances, and policies of Theodore Roosevelt.† (source)

There were poets abroad, of early date and of late, from the friend and eulogist of Shakespeare down to him who has recently passed into silence, and that musical one of the tribe who is still among us.† (source) Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1895

For we do not see ourselves as Hans Castorp's eulogist and want to leave room for the suggestion that, for him, work was simply something that stood in the way of the unencumbered enjoyment of a Maria Mancini.† (source) Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, 1924

I remember how unmercifully I laughed at what I considered your eulogistic and exaggerated praises of him; but I have now ample cause to admit that your enthusiastic description of this wonderful man fell far short of his merits.† (source)

The compliments paid to Miss Fanny Brough by the critics, eulogistic as they are, are the compliments of men three-fourths duped as Partridge was duped by Garrick.† (source)

This quaint and gaudy spectacle so wrought upon the rejoicing people, that their acclamations utterly smothered the small voice of the child whose business it was to explain the thing in eulogistic rhymes.† (source)

Though I never knew what they were (being in Welsh), further than that they were highly eulogistic of the lineage of Morgan ap-Kerrig.† (source) Charles Dickens, Bleak House, 1853

On his tombstone, too, the record is highly eulogistic; nor does history, so far as he holds a place upon its page, assail the consistency and uprightness of his character.† (source)

It may, therefore, be easily imagined there is no scarcity of guides at the Colosseum, that wonder of all ages, which Martial thus eulogizes: "Let Memphis cease to boast the barbarous miracles of her pyramids, and the wonders of Babylon be talked of no more among us; all must bow to the superiority of the gigantic labor of the Caesars, and the many voices of Fame spread far and wide the surpassing merits of this incomparable monument."† (source)

In short, the honorable Judge was beginning to be a stale subject before half the country newspapers had found time to put their columns in mourning, and publish his exceedingly eulogistic obituary.† (source)

And while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens—there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.† (source) Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1799

The country's ten thousand dead had gone unmourned and uneulogized while the boys went on singing English songs and playing cricket, moved only by reports that reached them, three weeks late, from the British Isles.† (source)
standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uneulogized means not and reverses the meaning of eulogized. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.

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