praiseworthy

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[ US /ˈpɹeɪzˌwɝði/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈe‍ɪzjuːˌɜːði/ ]
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 praiseworthy In A Sentence

  • With praiseworthy patience the woman took on the task of domesticating her charge. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • To judge, however, by the ardor with which he worked, he was engaged in some one of those schemes that are termed follies before success, but which, after success, are universally acknowledged to be brilliant and praiseworthy instances of industrial enterprise. Willis the Pilot
  • Even today, the customer service at Ruger is praiseworthy and I'm delighted with it. Are Ruger Model 77s Accurate Rifles? I Wonder.
  • He praises many un praiseworthy things besides debt: his praise of the codpiece is a considered essay on generation, as well as an ironic commentary on that segment of a man's trousers. LITERARY PARADOX
  • Was it an admission of error, a miscalculation, or a praiseworthy acceptance of the people's demands for a say on the new constitution, to which he simply had to bow?
  • Being ‘green’ while being profitable is praiseworthy but not always achievable.
  • Such oratory may offer proof that its subject is praiseworthy or blameworthy, but does not usually offer arguments for the values that underlie the speech.
  • Mark began to feel that he really had done something praiseworthy, and that the "daub" was not so despicable after all. Moods
  • The best thing about her is that the fact that she is beautiful isn't even in the top 10 of her most praiseworthy traits.
  • If the plan does not pay, what then? only a part of the money can be lost; and to have given that to an hospital or an almshouse would have been called praiseworthy and Christian charity; how much more to have spent it not in the cure, but in the prevention of evil -- in making almshouses less needful, and lessening the number of candidates for the hospital! Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
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