Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Meriting praise; highly commendable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Deserving of praise; laudable; commendable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Worthy of praise or applause; commendable
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- adjective Meriting
praise ;worthy of high praise
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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What makes this especially praiseworthy is that such an increase, like all taxes on goods and services, hits especially hard on the poor.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009
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What makes this especially praiseworthy is that such an increase, like all taxes on goods and services, hits especially hard on the poor.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009
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But what Mr. Monks finds so praiseworthy is also shorthand for the government piling up future obligations in order to keep paying in the present for things Madrid could no longer afford.
The Debt Party 2010
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What's especially praiseworthy is their ensemble acting, the ebbs and flows of who's in and out being handled with confidence and control.
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In contrast, when a Republican does something praiseworthy, that is unexpected, and like the Democratic gaffes, the unexpected engenders a response and a post.
What lies beneath Althouse's purported cruel neutrality? -- a poll. Ann Althouse 2008
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If the plan does not pay, what then? only a part of the money can be lost; and to have given that to an hospital or an almshouse would have been called praiseworthy and Christian charity; how much more to have spent it not in the cure, but in the prevention of evil -- in making almshouses less needful, and lessening the number of candidates for the hospital!
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847
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While acknowledging that the work is a modern one, and describing as "praiseworthy" the city of Rome's initiative to erect the tribute, the Vatican said "the statue's sin" is that it is "hardly able to be recognized."
The Seattle Times 2011
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Because they want to be called praiseworthy but not to live in a praiseworthy way, they make an outward show of holiness and feign justice, although they never give justice a thought.
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Because they want to be called praiseworthy but not to live in a praiseworthy way, they make an outward show of holiness and feign justice, although they never give justice a thought.
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Because they want to be called praiseworthy but not to live in a praiseworthy way, they make an outward show of holiness and feign justice, although they never give justice a thought.
WN.com - Articles related to UK's Conservatives attack Brown over credit crisis 2010
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