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the quality of being worthy of praise

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Usage examples (4)
  • Adjective : Reorganizing the files was a laudable idea
  • The antithesis is not a good one, between the difficulty of Jeanie's 'personal exertions' and the laudableness of the motive which led to them.
  • But it must be remembered that such sentiments, from their very universality and evident laudableness, need correctives, for they bear in themselves a great danger of...
  • Inlarging upon the goodness of their intention & reminding him of your letter, he answer'd that the Lords would not dispute the laudableness of the design, but that...
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