Commendable
[kə'mendəb(ə)l] or [kə'mɛndəbl]
Definition
(a.) Worthy of being commended or praised; laudable; praiseworthy.
Typed by Cyril
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Laudable, praiseworthy, to be commended.
Typist: Lottie
Examples
- It would be much more commendable to be somebody else's enemy, said the gentleman; far more natural. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- General Buell was a brave, intelligent officer, with as much professional pride and ambition of a commendable sort as I ever knew. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Something commendable in his disposition! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Good phrases are surely, and ever were, very commendable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Lottie