Definition of "laudable" []

• Deserving commendation; praiseworthy. (adjective)

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• "Also laudable is the fact that someone famous owned up to her own difficulty with substance abuse."
• "When I pointed out to him that countries such as Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea have accomplished many of the things that he himself identified as laudable, yet had not changed their scripts, he seemed entirely unmoved."
• "In any other sense they are clear cases of Petitio Principii, since the word laudable, and the idea of boasting, imply principles of conduct; and practical maxims can only be proved from speculative truths, namely, from the properties of the subject-matter, and can not, therefore, be employed to prove those properties."