To strategically praise a person or a group of people in order to manipulate the emotions of another person or group of people — usually to provoke jealousy, insecurity, competition or create a sense of
inferiority without directly insulting or bashing the
third party.
A subtle form of emotional
triangulation and comparative flattery disguised as praise
“Notice how she kept praising his ex the whole night? She was clearly praiselating to make him feel less.”
“
The teacher kept praising the other
students just to get under our skin. Total praiselation.”
“You weren’t complimenting her — you were praiselating me.”
“He didn’t
compliment her because he admired her — he did it to praiselate me”