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- adjective worthy of being applauded.
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- adjective Worthy of being
applauded ;praiseworthy ;commendable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective worthy of high praise
Etymologies
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Examples
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MR: You've taken your careers into your own hands and that's applaudable, and you're selling these huge amounts of records by self-promoting.
Mike Ragogna: Give A Little: Yesterday's Conversation with Taylor Hanson Mike Ragogna 2011
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MR: You've taken your careers into your own hands and that's applaudable, and you're selling these huge amounts of records by self-promoting.
Mike Ragogna: Give A Little: Yesterday's Conversation with Taylor Hanson Mike Ragogna 2011
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For the President to encourage children to work hard, get their diploma, go to college, and set goals for themselves is applaudable.
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I and my collegues applaud the American tradition of TRUTH - and your questioning throughout our nation of claims of heroism is applaudable.
BERNARD RAMSEY 2010
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MR: You've taken your careers into your own hands and that's applaudable, and you're selling these huge amounts of records by self-promoting.
Mike Ragogna: Give A Little: Yesterday's Conversation with Taylor Hanson Mike Ragogna 2011
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MR: You've taken your careers into your own hands and that's applaudable, and you're selling these huge amounts of records by self-promoting.
Mike Ragogna: Give A Little: Yesterday's Conversation with Taylor Hanson Mike Ragogna 2011
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They kept close together, and covered for each other with applaudable distrust.
John Terry and David Luiz at the heart of Chelsea's tactical triumph | David Pleat 2011
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The economy of material for the design is quite applaudable.
Beautiful Coffee Table Crafted From Sawdust Scraps | Inhabitat 2010
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While your attitude is applaudable, most prominent anti-abortion groups are also anti contraception and they don't tolerate anyone who is pro-life and pro-contraception.
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(See Obama promotes nuclear-free world.) It is applaudable that the US and Russia systemtically reduce their nuclear stockpile and encourage every other nuclear power to do so.
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