esteemed
adjective
regarded highly or favorably; respected or admired.
well-esteemed
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a word derived from
esteemed.
Example Sentences
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When the last exam of the spring term is over, most well-esteemed university professors are likely to be already en route to the airport with their luggage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Himself, with his brother Sir John Arundell of Lanherne, were both suspected of being implicated in the rebellion of their uncle Humphrey Arundell, Governor of St. Michael's Mount, "a man well-esteemed for military services."
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers
V.126 of a good respect: of good reputation, well-esteemed.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black
This second Adam Winthrop, at the age of seventeen, went to London, binding himself as an apprentice for ten years under the well-esteemed and profitable guild of the "clothiers," or cloth-workers.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various
In the ninth Month of the Year 1753, in Company with my well-esteemed Friend John Sykes, and with the Unity of Friends, we travelled about two Weeks, visiting Friends in Bucks-County.
From John Woolman's Journal by John Woolman
