Example Sentences

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"See, then, O King," continued the Wazir "what cometh of precipitance; verily, it is unpraiseworthy and bequeatheth repentance; and in this I give thee true advice and loyal counsel."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

We do not mean to say that this minute exegesis is useless or unpraiseworthy, but only that it should be subsidiary to the larger way.

From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell

Who can exactly determine how great a part may have been played by avarice, ambition, vanity, curiosity, and finally by a not unpraiseworthy emotional hunger?

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely