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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
commendable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
▪ Your speed in reporting, printing and distribution is highly commendable.
▪ Santa gave them a highly commendable seven out of ten rating.
▪ For purposes other than electoral forecasting such close estimates would be regarded as highly commendable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The headteacher thanked the boys for their efforts, which he said were most commendable.
▪ The police acted with commendable restraint, considering the amount of pressure they were under.
▪ The whole workforce has adapted to the new computing system with commendable speed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But Sue Grayson Ford has an impressive and commendable history and says she thrives on challenges.
▪ Commitment of experimental method is in itself entirely commendable.
▪ Overall, thinking on children's needs, despite its commendable focus on specific categories, was incomplete.
▪ She told herself that she was showing commendable delicacy in not probing.
▪ This, they felt, was symptomatic of the paper's commendable interest in and support of, the arts.
▪ With commendable dispatch, it was completed and presented to the legislature in March 1880.
▪ Your speed in reporting, printing and distribution is highly commendable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commendable

Commendable \Com*mend"a*ble\, a.

Note: (Formerly accented on the first syllable.) [L. commendabilis.] Worthy of being commended or praised; laudable; praiseworthy.

Order and decent ceremonies in the church are not only comely but commendable.
--Bacon. -- Com*mend"a*ble*ness, n. -- Com*mend"a*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
commendable

mid-14c., from Middle French commendable, from Latin commendabilis "praiseworthy," from commendare (see commend). Related: Commendably.

Wiktionary
commendable

a. worthy of commendation; deserving praise; admirable, creditable or meritorious.

WordNet
commendable
  1. adj. worthy of high praise; "applaudable efforts to save the environment"; "a commendable sense of purpose"; "laudable motives of improving housing conditions"; "a significant and praiseworthy increase in computer intelligence" [syn: applaudable, laudable, praiseworthy]

  2. adv. in an admirable manner; "the children's responses were admirably normal" [syn: admirably, laudably, praiseworthily]

Wikipedia
Commendable

Commendable (April 13, 1997 – April 10, 2014) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse, best known for his victory in the 2000 Belmont Stakes. In his racing career, he ran twelve times and won two races. After his racing career, he stood as a stallion in South Korea.

Usage examples of "commendable".

With commendable expedition, efficiency and gusto, they stopped those Gepids who attacked on the north bank, then beat them back.

As all commendable diligence was used by the officers of the peace to make way for the bailiff, Herr Hofmeister and his companions were soon in their allotted stations, which, it is scarcely necessary to repeat, were the upper places on the estrade.

But as Jones knew not those virtues in so short an acquaintance, his caution was perhaps prudent and commendable enough.

He said the perseverance and integrity of his friendship was highly commendable, and he wished he could see more frequent instances of that virtue.

Men had been engaged in many pursuits, most of them disastrous, some of them highly commendable.

Lieutenant Cheng Shiao of the Royal Constabulary, did a commendable job of not acting flabbergasted or starstruck when the expected First Philander stepped through the fax gate with the quite unexpected Queen of Sol in tow, plus a pair of dainty metal bodyguards, plus an extra Philander who was quite famous in his own right.

She asked for a half of Dry Blackthorn, showing commendable restraint.

Dartrey or Simeon or Colney to be at his elbow rather than this most commendable of orderly citizens, who little imagined the treacherous revolt from him in the bosom of the gentleman cordially signifying full agreement.

It is all very pleasant, unpretending, unceremonious, cheerful, well ordered, commendable, but not imposing.

Miss Ophelia, after this, did labor, with a commendable degree of zeal and energy, on her new subject.

Enlightenment paradigm: the task of both overcoming gross reductionism, which is altogether commendable, and covertly propagating subtle reductionism, the reduction of all intention to extension, all quality to quantity, all interpreted depths to unambiguously seen surfaces, all hierarchical values to monological mesh, all interiors to holistic strands, all truth and meaning to functional fit, all degrees of interior depth to mere functions of exterior span.

Or again, it was a reason that went from an altogether commendable worldcentric understanding, to a virtual repression of anything not automatically of its ilk.

The priest showed commendable control, letting the girl finish her confession and receive absolution, before running from the booth to raise the alarm.

No longer allowed out of the house, often confined to the bed-room suite on the second floor, poor Babygirl nonetheless managed to adjust to the altered circumstances of her life with commendable fortitude and good humor.

His clerks accepted the expected word, and vanished with commendable calm to prepare the sealed writs the couriers would bear to the chieftains of two cantrefs before the night was over.