admirable
Example Sentences
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Bath's win was all the more admirable as they only took the lead for the first time in the 54th minute, having fallen 14-0 behind early on.
From Barron's
We rightly fear nuclear proliferation, and yet “amazing grace and good fortune,” and admirable postwar statecraft, “actually bent the arc of history.”
There’s an admirable integrity to how the group doesn’t explain much to the uninitiated.
From New York Times
“It could be argued that it’s just as admirable to do something regardless of what it says on a card,” says Dusty, whose own card suggests that he’s already all the person he’ll ever be.
From Los Angeles Times
It's not just his capacity to score goals for Scotland that makes John McGinn such an admirable character, it's his candour in cutting through the PR and calling it as he sees it.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
