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uncoˈmmendable, a.
(un-1 7 b and 5 b.)
1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 228 It is thing lawfull and not vncommendable. 1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke Pref. C j b, It is vncommendable thorough vain arrogancie to take vpon vs that we haue not. 1603Breton Dial. Pith & Pleas. Wks. (Grosart) II. 9/2 The most dishonourable, and vncommendable of all creatures in the world. 1697Jos. Woodward Relig. Soc. i. (1701) 15, I know no worldly, sinister, or uncommendable design proposed or prosecuted thereby. 1758Walpole Catal. Roy. Authors (1759) II. 172 This is the only uncommendable performance of our Author's life. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. xviii. 377 Almost any group of 12-year-olds, asked what are their favourite after-dark games, will name doorbell-ringing, and similar uncommendable activities. 1983T. de Vere White Johnnie Cross i. 12 The public had shown uncommendable restraint in the book shops.
Hence uncoˈmmendably adv.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. xii[i]. (Arb.) 126 As he that translated certaine bookes of Virgils Eneydos in such measures and not vncommendably. 1882Academy 16 Dec. 433/3 He dipped a little into scholarship, too, and not uncommendably. |