laudable

How To Use laudable In A Sentence

• The goal to attack the spiralling cost of public services may be laudable, but the precedent is dangerous.
• It is, in my judgment, a very laudable course of some churches, that use, for the next three days together, to desire the congregation to join in earnest prayer to God for the opening of the sinner's eyes, and the softening of his heart, and the saving of him from impenitency and eternal death. The Reformed Pastor
• This landmark and laudable legislative step would go a long way in women empowerment and gender equality.
• laudable motives of improving housing conditions
• The new report has the laudable aim of changing the make-up of the judiciary. Times, Sunday Times
• In the duty of accumulation -- and I call it a _duty_, in the most strict and literal signification of that word -- all below a competence is most valuable, and its acquisition most laudable; but all above a fortune is a misfortune. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
• Now we have set aside and stewardship schemes where the production of food is secondary to the look of the countryside - all very laudable. Times, Sunday Times
• This is a laudable but somewhat abstract concept.
• The perfectly laudable aim is to engineer a more mixed intake in schools. Times, Sunday Times
• Faith ceases to be laudable when it is blind faith.