praiseworthy

comparative praiseworthier · comparative more praiseworthy · superlative praiseworthiest · superlative most praiseworthy · alternative archaic praise-worthy

1. Meriting praise; worthy of high praise

   That it is a praiseworthy matter to be harboursome to strangers.

   1882, Walter Baxendale, The preacher's commentary on the book of Ruth

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   It is a melancholy truth that this same New York, though the most charming, pleasant, polished, and praiseworthy city under the sun, and in a word the bonne bouche of the universe, is most shockingly ill-natured and sarcastic, and wickedly given to all manner of backslidings ; for which we are very sorry, indeed.

   1807 April 18, Washington Irving, “To Correspondents”, in Salmagundi, G. P. Putnam's sons, New York, pages 183–184

   No self-complacency can equal that of the selfish. Not content with its indulgence, they actually idolise it into being praiseworthy.

   1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 128

   Some parts of New Zagreb is really good and praiseworthy urban planning.

   2016, Joao Teixeira Lopes, Ray Hutchison, Public Spaces: Times of Crisis and Change, page 113

   Synonyms: estimable, laudable, reverend, admirable, allowable, commendable, creditable, estimable