estimably

comparative more estimably · superlative most estimably

1. In an estimable manner; deserving of esteem.

   He had turned her adrift, neither a wife, widow, nor maid, and here she was, one of the most estimably lovable and noble women I have ever met.

   1901, Miles Franklin, “Aunt Helen’s Recipe”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 70

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   The name of the sisters Frank stood estimably at the head of this useful establishment; but it is a question whether it would have prospered to such an extent, whether it would have developed itself so beautifully and well without the assistance of a person who, however, has carefully concealed his activity from the eye of the public, and whose name, for that reason, was never praised.

   1853, Fredrika Bremer, The Home

   Director Breillat, screenwriter for Maurice Pialat's estimably gritty Police (1985), thoroughly demolishes every trace of prurience, instead focusing on the almost dizzying conflict within Lili--her confusion over her hunger for life and her anger at it.

   1989 April 7, Kurt Jacobsen, “Losing It”, in Chicago Reader