Exemplary
[ɪg'zemplərɪ;eg-] or [ɪɡ'zɛmpləri]
Definition
(adj.) worthy of imitation; 'exemplary behavior'; 'model citizens' .
Checker: Wilmer--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary conduct.
(a.) Serving as a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages.
(a.) Illustrating as the proof of a thing.
(n.) An exemplar; also, a copy of a book or writing.
Editor: Will
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Meritorious, good, worthy, worthy of imitation, fit for a pattern.[2]. Monitory, warning.
Checker: Neil
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Laudable, praiseworthy, conspicuous, honorable, wary, meritorious, worthy,excellent
ANT:Detestable, objectionable, exceptionable
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Examples
- With exemplary swiftness Bob Gliddery departed, and returned. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Look, _Ingl閟_, what an exemplary patriot. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The horror of Pitt Crawley may be imagined, as these reports of his father's dotage reached the most exemplary and correct of gentlemen. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- These she put down upon the table without a word, glaring at me the while with exemplary firmness, and then retired, locking the door after her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Exemplary wives will sometimes find scapegoats in this way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Certainly, the exemplary Mrs. Garth had her droll aspects, but her character sustained her oddities, as a very fine wine sustains a flavor of skin. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- When we arrived at Rochester therefore, we were surprised to receive, by a man just come from Slough, a letter from this exemplary sufferer. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The clergy were to be freed from lay jurisdiction and from taxation, and exemplary cruelties were to be practised upon the heretics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He became an exemplary domestic character, and a truly active parish priest (as a pastor he, to his dying day, conscientiously refused to act). Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He must familiarize himself, therefore, with a number of exemplary classical works. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I assure you, most exemplary! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I consider Mr. Tyke an exemplary man--none more so--and I believe him to be proposed from unimpeachable motives. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- About 2700 to 2400 B.C. reigned five emperors, who seem to have been almost incredibly exemplary beings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nothing but exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Danton was still Danton, leonine and exemplary upon the guillotine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That exemplary brother and sister--lived and died in the foulest and filthiest degradation. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He was a most estimable man, of exemplary habits, and by no means the author of his own disease. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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