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单词 laudable
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Definition of laudable in English:

laudable

adjective ˈlɔːdəb(ə)lˈlɔdəb(ə)l
  • (of an action, idea, or aim) deserving praise and commendation.

    laudable though the aim might be, the results have been criticized
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Obviously, it's a laudable aim, but it is oddly catholic in its objectives.
    • Both are laudable aims, and both may be partially realized in the course of psychoanalysis.
    • The goal to attack the spiralling cost of public services may be laudable, but the precedent is dangerous.
    • Focusing on the long term is also laudable in itself - especially in the light of what we've seen lately.
    • The move was a serious blow to the government's laudable aim of achieving full employment.
    • Enabling the internet's full potential to be used by the world's entire population is indeed laudable.
    • Most farmers would agree that was a laudable aim, but many doubt that the ministry has the will or the wherewithal to bring it about.
    • It is a very laudable approach, that is, if we are serious about dealing with the issue of drunk driving.
    • It is a laudable impulse to try to increase your understanding of voters in other parts of the country.
    • But it was no less laudable for that.
    • This landmark and laudable legislative step would go a long way in women empowerment and gender equality.
    • Senior officers in the transport department agree that Minister's intention may be laudable.
    • Our council's proposal to target secondary schools, while laudable, is catching them too late.
    • The report said it had a laudable aim and created skilled jobs - but was not open to proper public scrutiny.
    • Nowadays a reasonable degree of certainty for third parties is not merely a laudable aim, it is a mandatory requirement of the law.
    • The proposal to give tax exemption on the pension received by ex-servicemen and their kin is laudable.
    • Her commitment is laudable but she does not have the credentials needed for her new position.
    • Perfection is a laudable aim in sport but rarely, if ever, is it attainable.
    • As such, he doesn't explain the essential mystery here - how modest funding for a laudable goal could have become such a punishing liability.
    • The author's use of lots of prose to explain key ideas, concepts and theories is laudable.
    Synonyms
    praiseworthy, commendable, admirable, meritorious, worthy, deserving, creditable, worthy of admiration, estimable, of note, noteworthy, exemplary, reputable, honourable, excellent, sterling
    rare applaudable

Derivatives

  • laudability

  • noun lɔːdəˈbɪlɪtiˌlɔdəˈbɪlədi
    • Whatever the laudability of the Buddhist beliefs, or un-laudability, most westerners join up to appear cool.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I'm not making a comment at all about the laudability of their actions.
      • Notwithstanding the laudability of this goal, this isn't about the death penalty, it's about who decides the death penalty.
  • laudably

  • adverb ˈlɔːdəbliˈlɔdəbli
    • It's a laudably ambitious work, and a frustratingly uneven novel.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The director is laudably respectful towards her subjects.
      • All his work carries a conviction that smacks of a healthy combination of intense darkness and a capacity for hard work and a laudably practical attitude to plotting in its author.
      • A professor of English and comparative literature at Princeton, and published by Yale, she is heaped with Ivy League credentials but laudably determined not to be stifled by them.
      • And, most laudably, I managed not to scream when I saw one.
      • There's no shortage of government officials who think they're being laudably tough while they smother human empathy.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin laudabilis, from laus, laud- 'praise'.

 
 

Definition of laudable in US English:

laudable

adjectiveˈlôdəb(ə)lˈlɔdəb(ə)l
  • (of an action, idea, or goal) deserving praise and commendation.

    laudable though the aim might be, the results have been criticized
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Perfection is a laudable aim in sport but rarely, if ever, is it attainable.
    • Both are laudable aims, and both may be partially realized in the course of psychoanalysis.
    • This landmark and laudable legislative step would go a long way in women empowerment and gender equality.
    • Enabling the internet's full potential to be used by the world's entire population is indeed laudable.
    • Our council's proposal to target secondary schools, while laudable, is catching them too late.
    • The author's use of lots of prose to explain key ideas, concepts and theories is laudable.
    • The proposal to give tax exemption on the pension received by ex-servicemen and their kin is laudable.
    • Nowadays a reasonable degree of certainty for third parties is not merely a laudable aim, it is a mandatory requirement of the law.
    • Focusing on the long term is also laudable in itself - especially in the light of what we've seen lately.
    • It is a laudable impulse to try to increase your understanding of voters in other parts of the country.
    • Obviously, it's a laudable aim, but it is oddly catholic in its objectives.
    • It is a very laudable approach, that is, if we are serious about dealing with the issue of drunk driving.
    • The report said it had a laudable aim and created skilled jobs - but was not open to proper public scrutiny.
    • The goal to attack the spiralling cost of public services may be laudable, but the precedent is dangerous.
    • Most farmers would agree that was a laudable aim, but many doubt that the ministry has the will or the wherewithal to bring it about.
    • Her commitment is laudable but she does not have the credentials needed for her new position.
    • As such, he doesn't explain the essential mystery here - how modest funding for a laudable goal could have become such a punishing liability.
    • The move was a serious blow to the government's laudable aim of achieving full employment.
    • But it was no less laudable for that.
    • Senior officers in the transport department agree that Minister's intention may be laudable.
    Synonyms
    praiseworthy, commendable, admirable, meritorious, worthy, deserving, creditable, worthy of admiration, estimable, of note, noteworthy, exemplary, reputable, honourable, excellent, sterling

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin laudabilis, from laus, laud- ‘praise’.

 
 
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