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UK
/lˈɔːdəbəl/
]
[ US /ˈɫɔdəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɔdəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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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
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