Meanings
- not comparableNot admirable; reprehensible.
Garvey makes it clear that no one deserves punishment merely for possessing base or nonadmirable desires.
2009, Larry Alexander, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, Stephen J. Morse, Crime and Culpability: A Theory of Criminal Law, page 762 more examples
This inference could be drawn whether the self-descriptions truly reflected the objective prevalence of admirable qualities, the subjects' misperceptions of their (in fact) nonadmirable qualities as if they were admirable, or the subjects' desire to avoid describing themselves in terms of their realistically perceived nonadmirable qualities.
1975, Howard B. Kaplan, Self-attitudes and Deviant Behavior, page 16For example, the fact that different cultures have different rules for what kind of "killing" is permissible, probably just means that all these rules are more or less mistaken if one takes them as precise and invariable criteria for differentiating admirable individuals from nonadmirable individuals.
2016, Michael LaFargue, Rational Spirituality and Divine Virtue in Plato, page 105
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