The student's effort on the essay--though not outstanding--was creditable. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Apparently the workers of America are not yet ready to sing, although I recall a creditable chorus trained at. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes] Reference
You wouldn't be penalized for dropping "creditable" coverage later and signing up for Part D, Mr. Precht says. From Wordnik.com. [Most Retirees Must Sign Up for Medicare Part B] Reference
Consequently, could we not trust the Brits to do at least the same kind of creditable job on a remake of THE PRISONER. From Wordnik.com. [The Prisoner remade?] Reference
You will receive a notice of "creditable" coverage each year. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Debenhams today said profits were up on last year after the department store chain achieved a "creditable" Christmas trading performance. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
The opening showed a tact creditable to her years. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
May twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh, were highly creditable. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 52, No. 3, September, 1898] Reference
Among the first fruits of the order was this creditable fight. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
In dealing with events creditable to his own courage and gallantry. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
The behaviour of these was any thing but creditable to their nation. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Seven graduated, and their orations and essays were highly creditable. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 48, No. 7, July, 1894] Reference
England, is creditable in kind and quality, but fails very far in giving. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
The exercises of the day were creditable both to the instructors and pupils. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 52, No. 3, September, 1898] Reference
It is a creditable monument to the memory of every one that wrought upon it. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
He has had a career which is, to say the least, creditable to the name he bears. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Those dear Ionians! creditable fellow-countrymen are they for us, and profitable. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Finally, she thought him a hero, because he had fought two or three creditable duels. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Ewell, and so witnessed the affair, uncommonly spirited, and creditable to both sides. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
Shawn was hardly a recluse: he threw parties at which he played creditable jazz piano. From Wordnik.com. [A Lover Of The Long Shot] Reference
Even so the confidence of England's work then had been creditable as well as exciting. From Wordnik.com. [England continue strong start with confident defeat of Switzerland] Reference
It was creditable alike to the general who commanded and the army which had executed it. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
His researches and impartiality are most creditable, and worthy of respect and attention. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
Brooklynites do a creditable Brooklyn and every Valley Girl can do an uncanny Valley Girl. From Wordnik.com. [For Candidates, An Accent on Authenticity] Reference
It was, on the whole, a very creditable piece of work, and Madam Schuyler grew more reconciled to it as. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
But where it was impossible for their deeds to become known their conduct was far from creditable to them. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
The writer has seen one of his prints, made between 1855 and 1860, which was a very creditable piece of work. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
But though she distributed her favors with creditable impartiality, she found the baby peculiarly fascinating. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Carefully attend to the latter part of these instructions, or the final result will be anything but creditable. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
I rose from my knees with a cricked back, but I had my Purple Spot neatly balanced on a really creditable mound. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914] Reference
When thus expressed in plain words, it certainly does not sound very creditable, or as if it were the best policy. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] 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
Considering the materials he had to work upon, his delineation of the character was highly creditable to his talents. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
Had he not been elected President, he would probably have enjoyed a long, useful, and highly creditable public career. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
A number of very creditable collections were offered, the competition was close, and resulted in the giving of three prizes. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 52, No. 3, September, 1898] Reference
The Onondagas, with acting Todotahhoh, of the confederacy, and his two counselors, made an exceedingly creditable appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
Blassemare instantly tendered his evidence, and in the course of it was forced to make disclosures very little creditable to himself. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
We have looked over the evidence and the tables with considerable care, and think them, on the whole, highly creditable to the author. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
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