praiseworthy
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The announcement of Dudamel’s first New York season, while praiseworthy, brought an earful of gripes about his speaking in platitudes from hardcore New Yorkers unimpressed by uplift.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
For one thing, his novel is one of the few that looks at colonizing Mars as a legitimate, even praiseworthy, escape plan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
“The effort is praiseworthy, but so excessively tardy that it is perfectly useless,” a collective of linguists wrote in the Liberation newspaper on Thursday.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2024
Such mythmaking adds to the public's belief in the possibility of the American dream and the praiseworthy egoism of genius.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2023
These were praiseworthy gestures, but it was hard to imagine that they would do him much good.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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