Usage examples (17)

• Adjective : a praiseworthy motive
• The firing ceased immediately, the American's boats were launched, and every effort praiseworthily made to save the sinking crew.
• I intend, to-day, dear M., to be as disagreeably statistical and as praiseworthily matter-of-factish as the most dogged utilitarian could desire.
• But certainly the author did this not less praiseworthily than wisely, that he might here, by implication, touch upon the origin of that famous family, and might give a...