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worthy of high praise- I appreciate his laudable efforts to save the environment.
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
laudable = worthy of high praise
laudable = worthy of high praise
laudable = worthy of high praise
laudable = worthy of high praise