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Illaudable

ILLAUD'ABLE

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Adj.
[See Laudable.] Not laudable; not worthy of approbation or commendation; as an illaudable motive or act.
1.
Worthy of censure or dispraise.

Definition 2024


illaudable

illaudable

English

Adjective

illaudable (comparative more illaudable, superlative most illaudable)

  1. Not laudable; unpraiseworthy.
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:
      A custom there is in some parts of Europe, to adorn aqueducts, spouts and cisterns with lions' heads; which though no illaudable ornament, is of an Egyptian genealogy [...].