Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Deserving commendation; praiseworthy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be lauded; praiseworthy; commendable: as, laudable motives; laudable actions.
- In pathology, healthy; salubrious; natural.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable
- adjective (Med.) Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Worthy of being
lauded ;praiseworthy ;commendable ; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition. - adjective Healthy;
salubrious ; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective worthy of high praise
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Examples
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Also laudable is the fact that someone famous owned up to her own difficulty with substance abuse.
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When I pointed out to him that countries such as Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea have accomplished many of the things that he himself identified as laudable, yet had not changed their scripts, he seemed entirely unmoved.
Haroon Moghul: The Revolutionary Fashion Police: What Not to Wear When Egypt's Government Goes Down Haroon Moghul 2011
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When I pointed out to him that countries such as Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea have accomplished many of the things that he himself identified as laudable, yet had not changed their scripts, he seemed entirely unmoved.
Haroon Moghul: The Revolutionary Fashion Police: What Not to Wear When Egypt's Government Goes Down Haroon Moghul 2011
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In any other sense they are clear cases of Petitio Principii, since the word laudable, and the idea of boasting, imply principles of conduct; and practical maxims can only be proved from speculative truths, namely, from the properties of the subject-matter, and can not, therefore, be employed to prove those properties.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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Verges's tale is also a story of the mutation of the terror zeitgeist, from what many would call the laudable struggle of the Algerian people to the decadent terror-chic of Carlos and Magdelena Kopp ....
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While the commissioners "stay of enforcement was rooted in" laudable "intentions allowing the products" sale for two more years, it "does not and cannot end the ban on these vehicles," said several industry trade groups, including the Coalition for Safe and Responsible ATV Use and the Specialty Vehicle Institute of America.
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Oh, those textual scholars, with their "laudable" by which I mean, sweetly pathetic devotion to a "scientifically pure" text!
Archive 2009-06-01 Flavia 2009
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Oh, those textual scholars, with their "laudable" by which I mean, sweetly pathetic devotion to a "scientifically pure" text!
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2009
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PS Sorry about the laughable misreading of "laudable"!
Dennis Kucinich: Standing Tall in the House as Cheney Impeachment Bill Advances 2007
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Given Borat's mass appeal, ads that recite the kind of laudable but dull facts you find in "special advertising sections" are not enough.
Kazakhstan Versus BoratKazakhastan Vs. Borat Marc E. Babej 2006
mohitanand commented on the word laudable
adjective: worthy of high praise
To say that Gandhi's actions were laudable is the greatest understatement; he overthrew an empire without violence.
October 19, 2016