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worthy of high praise

laudable = worthy of high praise

Positively, free trade is laudable for the way it encourages us to see to members of unfamiliar groups as partners, not enemies.
Will Wilkinson -- Capitalism and Human Nature -- http://www.cato.org/research/articles/wilkinson-050201.html (retrieved 06/29/06)
Although those goals are laudable, their execution remains riddled with problems.
Adam Thierer -- The Bush Administration's Broadband Policy Record -- http://www.cato.org/tech/tk/021111-tk.html (retrieved 06/28/06)
Job placement and training for seniors are fairly laudable objectives.
John Samples and Ivan Osorio -- Big Government Swallows Its Opponents -- http://www.cato.org/dailys/06-07-02.html (retrieved 06/29/06)
I want to acknowledge the laudable contributions from those who preceded me.
The whole little society entered into this laudable design, according to their different abilities.
Voltaire -- Candide

laudable = worthy of high praise

But I remember now I am in this earthly world; where to do harm is often laudable; to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly:
William Shakespeare -- Macbeth

laudable = worthy of high praise

I read most of them with laudable zeal, but few of them really appealed to me.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

laudable = worthy of high praise

and you are now sailed into the north of my lady's opinion; where you will hang like an icicle on Dutchman's beard, unless you do redeem it by some laudable attempt either of valour or policy.
William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night

laudable = worthy of high praise

And she determined within herself to make this laudable attempt.
Thackeray, William Makepeace -- Vanity Fair
So pray keep your places, like Athos, whose calmness is entirely laudable.
Dumas, Alexandre -- Twenty Years After
...requested leave of absence for this laudable purpose.
Dickens, Charles -- The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club
The paragraph in the Swiss newspaper described the fulfillment of this laudable project.
Collins, Wilkie -- No Name
We jog on as decently as we can, you a little in front—a laudable little party.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
To increase understanding is a laudable goal, hence the definitions and explanations given below.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
We are doing a laudable thing in saving mademoiselle, and yet we should be hung by order of the king if we were caught.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
This is laudable and tragic.
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
If you wish, I could make a laudable case for your defection.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
Locksley now proceeded to the distribution of the spoil, which he performed with the most laudable impartiality.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
I don't say she is laudable or lovable.
Henry James -- The American

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