praiseworthy
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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
My companion thought Susan Hilferty’s costumes were the most praiseworthy feature of the production.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024
“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
And I know that everyone will admit it would be a very praiseworthy thing to find in a prince those qualities mentioned above that are held to be good.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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