[ UK /lˈɔːdəbə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɔdəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. worthy of high praise
    a significant and praiseworthy increase in computer intelligence
    laudable motives of improving housing conditions
    a commendable sense of purpose
    applaudable efforts to save the environment
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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.
  • 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.
  • This was seen as a laudable attempt to be both environmentally and economically prudent. Times, Sunday Times
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