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adj. - Deserving of respect or high regard adj. - May be computed or guessed at; Deserving of respect.

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  • He was an estimable young man, honest, amiable, with high ideals.
  • "When a married man becomes what you call estimable," said Donna
  • The 'estimable' critic Ben Davis wows the pseudo Marxists/Socialists, but the guy should actually try and be a real Socialist for one month and then get back to us.
  • He argues that the risk of a true asset class is "estimable".
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