单词 | uncommendable |
释义 | uncommendableadj. (un- prefix1 1b.) ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [adjective] > worthy of dispraise > not praiseworthy unpraisable?c1475 uncommendable1509 incommendable?1518 unlovablea1525 unlaudable1535 unplausible1563 unpraiseworthy1587 illaudable1589 unlucky1628 inextollible1772 unrecommendable1830 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. ccxli It is thynge lawfull: and nat vncommendable. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke Pref. Cjv It is vncommendable thorough vain arrogancie to take vpon vs that we haue not. 1603 N. Breton Dialogue Pithe & Pleasure sig. C2v The most dishonourable, and vncommendable of all creatures in the world. 1701 J. Woodward Acct. Relig. Societies London (ed. 3) i. 16 I know no Worldly, Sinister, or Uncommendable Design proposed or prosecuted thereby. 1758 H. Walpole Catal. Royal Authors (1759) II. 172 This is the only uncommendable performance of our Author's life. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren 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. 1983 T. de V. White Johnnie Cross i. 12 The public had shown uncommendable restraint in the book shops. Derivatives uncoˈmmendably adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [adverb] > in manner not worthy of praise uncommendably1589 illaudably1725 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xii. 86 As he that translated certaine bookes of Virgils Eneydos in such measures & not vncommendably. 1882 Academy 16 Dec. 433/3 He dipped a little into scholarship, too, and not uncommendably. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.1509 |
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