Dictionary

uncommendable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + commendable.

Meanings

1. Not commendable.
   • He arrived at the Eighty-second Street apartment about six o'clock in the evening, and, after studying the dingy name-plates, took the five flights of stairs with uncommendable speed, and presented himself at the rear door on the sixth floor. 1921, Alice Hegan Rice, Quin:
   • During the last two centuries men appear to have striven, with a most uncommendable zeal, all over Christendom, to root out and extirpate every trace of the Gothic. 1874, Benj. N. Martin, Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader:

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Deriveds

uncommendably