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creditable

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN performance ▪ Overall, the Braintree team worked hard and produced a creditable performance which must be repeated at Lincoln on Saturday. ▪ Arthur Hill and his friend Peggy Hassard appeared on many of my productions ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Creditable \Cred"it*a*ble\ (-?-b'l), a. Worthy of belief. [Obs.] Divers creditable witnesses deposed. --Ludlow. Deserving or possessing reputation or esteem; reputable; estimable. This gentleman was born of creditable parents. --Goldsmith. Bringing ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from credit (v.) + -able . Related: Creditably ; creditability .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. worthy of often limited commendation; "the student's effort on the essay--though not outstanding--was creditable"

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 credible or believable. 2 That brings credit or honour; respectable. 3 That can be assigned; assignable.

Usage examples of creditable.

When it is remembered how near Eton is to London, and how frequent the communication, it will appear astonishing, but highly creditable to the authorities, that so little of the current slang of the day is to be met with here.

It appeared, by parts of sentences and broken remonstrances, equally addressed to the patron, whose name was Baptiste, and to the guardian of the Genevese laws, a rumor was rife among these truculent travellers, that Balthazar, the headsman, or executioner, of the powerful and aristocratical canton of Berne, was about to be smuggled into their company by the cupidity of the former, contrary, not only to what was due to the feelings and rights of men of more creditable callings, but, as it was vehemently and plausibly insisted, to the very safety of those who were about to trust their fortunes to the vicissitudes of the elements.

There was even a theory, creditable to Hans Holbein, drawn from this conclusion, that he might have adopted the Protestant views of his late gracious master, and have stood by them stoutly, and so far forfeited all recognition from the bitter Catholic Mary.

This time Jukes managed a halfway creditable salute, and marched away.

The route from Yauco to Sabana Grande lies for some two miles along the level and creditable road leading to Guanica, suddenly going off at right angles just beyond a picturesque sugar-mill into as uneven, crooked, and hilly a highway as can well be imagined.

With the kindest concern he came on to Longbourn, and broke his apprehensions to us in a manner most creditable to his heart.

His poetical effusions are equally creditable to his head and his heart, displaying the highest order of genius and powers of imagination and fancy hardly second to any writer of the age.

But when his victims lay at his feet giving two creditable imitations of Abednego before entering the hot room, the Saint went back to the upper deck without seeing the girl again.

At the same time, however, it gave him a creditable way to have Wolfe break his habits of reclusiveness and leave his brownstone on business and to celebrate, as detective fiction so often does, the power of cerebration and of friendship between men.

Father cannily complied with Farm Directives and still managed to plant most of the Fenn lands to creditable crops like corn and beets.

She was billed and announced as "The Music-Box Dancer" and performed atop the pista's padded curbing, doing several circuits of the ring, almost entirely en pointe, the way music-box dolls did, while cimbalist Elemér played, solo, a very creditable imitation of a music box tinkling one of Offenbach's barcarolles.

Marjorie, however, made her curtseys and farewells in a creditable manner.

A reputable inmate, truly, and a pleasant eclaircissement (this was one of his French words, and pronounced by him with his usual accuracy, precisely as it is spelt)—a pleasant eclaircissement—whenever that London excursion and its creditable circumstances come to light.

They were not slow to perceive their true purport, which was no other than to make the Church the last court of appeal in all cases, both civil and criminal: and not only did the nobility prefer the ancient mode of single combat from this cause, in itself a sufficient one, but they clung to it because an acquittal gained by those displays of courage and address which the battle afforded, was more creditable in the eyes of their compeers, than one which it required but little or none of either to accomplish.

He had had this scheme in mind, maturing for a great while, but it was only now that he had the leisure and tranquillity of mind to deal with it: he did the subject justice, going on at some length about the virtues of the ash, beech and durmast oak that would delight their great-grandchildren and even drawing a creditable view of the wood in its prime.