illaudable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not laudable; unpraiseworthy.
Example Sentences
- "A custome there is in most parts of Europe, to adorn Aqueducts, spouts and Cisternes with Lions heads; which though no illaudable ornament, is an Egyptian continuation, who practised the same under a symbolicall illation."
- "And this generally, with the thoughtless, is the beginning and progress of that formidable invader, miscalled Love; a word very happily at hand, to help giddy creatures to talk with and look without confusion of face on, a man telling them a thousand lyes, and hopeing, perhaps by illaudable means, to attain an end not in itself illaudable, when duty and discretion are, the one the guide, the other the gentle restraint."
- "[…] Marianne abhorred all concealment where no real disgrace could attend unreserve; and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common-place and mistaken notions."
Etymology
From Late Latin illaudabilis.
Word Breakdown
- Root: illaudabilis
Inflected Forms
more illaudable (comparative)
most illaudable (superlative)