A lifetime of meritorious service. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
What one party calls meritorious, the other denominates flagitious. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from an American Farmer] Reference
If this soul prevails over the lower two powers, the man is called meritorious and perfect. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
How bad is it that every time I see the word meritorious I immediately associate it with The Lady’s Tutor?. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary » Racism in Publishing » Print] Reference
A total of 76 percent of the "meritorious" cases were resolved within a year of filing. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
However, she added later that under its new board, the fund had become a more open, helpful and "meritorious" organisation. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The commission's approval means that it found the building "meritorious,". From Wordnik.com. [New Haven Independent] Reference
So "meritorious" was legislator Su that he made unsubstantiated claims that the Chen administration was seeking to develop nuclear weapons. From Wordnik.com. [Taipei Times] Reference
"meritorious" service until he lost his psychotic, anti-christian, fallen angelic, mind. From Wordnik.com. [Examiner California Headlines] Reference
Its reluctance to effect civilians was meritorious. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Particularly meritorious steadiness, night of July 6th. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
Major for faithful and meritorious service during the campaign. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
Colonel for faithful and meritorious service during the campaign. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
Major for faithful and meritorious service throughout the campaign. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
Lieutenant Colonel for faithful and meritorious service throughout the campaign. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
Lieutenant Colonel for faithful and meritorious conduct throughout the campaign. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
There appear to be three explanations - each one less meritorious than the other. From Wordnik.com. [Lanny Davis: Education Department's "Gainful Employment" Proposed Regulations Gone Awry] Reference
V., to be brevetted Major for faithful and meritorious service during the campaign. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
V., to be brevetted Colonel for faithful and meritorious service during the campaign. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
She had no scruple, therefore, in engaging Vautrot in the meritorious work she meditated. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
D. C., to be brevetted Major for faithful and meritorious service throughout the campaign. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
Help a man to get out of a scrape, and do you think he will appreciate your meritorious act?. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
Ditto on the other side, if the company refused to settle what looked like a meritorious claim. From Wordnik.com. [Losing Your Right To Sue?] Reference
He had several times been recommended for a brigadier-generalcy for gallant and meritorious conduct. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
V., to be brevetted Lieutenant Colonel for faithful and meritorious service throughout the campaign. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
Please do not think of this dedication as in any wise meritorious, or capable of purchasing any blessing. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Land of Canaan] Reference
With a politically divided General Assembly, nothing meritorious is possible without bipartisan cooperation. From Wordnik.com. [McDonnell's speech to the General Assembly on the budget] Reference
"Every objection that I have had heard that is meritorious we are going to take care when we have our proposal.". From Wordnik.com. [McDonnell refutes Saslaw's claim that ABC privatization plan is DOA] Reference
Here let Christians warily distinguish betwixt the meritorious and the instrumental cause of their justification. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
The creditable action, the meritorious man, have a certain claim upon us, if only the claim of special recognition. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
While there I served to the best of my ability, receiving a bronze star for meritorious service and another for valor. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
Amongst the elaborate system of guilds which permeates Chinese society, one of the most meritorious is the lifeboat guild. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
Volunteers at the beginning of the war, General Hayes attained by meritorious service the rank of Brevet Major-General before its close. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
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