praiseworthy
Example Sentences
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For one thing, his novel is one of the few that looks at colonizing Mars as a legitimate, even praiseworthy, escape plan.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
My companion thought Susan Hilferty’s costumes were the most praiseworthy feature of the production.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024
“The effort is praiseworthy, but so excessively tardy that it is perfectly useless,” a collective of linguists wrote in the Liberation newspaper on Thursday.
From BBC • Nov. 14, 2024
But “The Many Lives of Martha Stewart” includes enough of a praiseworthy viewpoint for the audience to recognize the double standard to which she was subjected in her public life.
From Salon • Jan. 29, 2024
Father thought the king’s knights weren’t aggressive enough; the earl believed them to be valiant and praiseworthy.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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