The word 'estimable' is correct and is often used in written English.
It means worthy of esteem or respect, and can be used to describe someone or something that is highly regarded or admirable. Example: The teacher was known for her estimable qualities of patience, intelligence, and dedication to her students.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) expects to topple Congress in Rajasthan and easily keep hold of power in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh (where turnout in Maoist-affected areas on November 11th was an estimable 67%).In this section Worse than hell The new normal?
All very different, he implies, from the way the more hard-headed and estimable Margaret Thatcher would have handled things.Had Mr Blair only used the leverage he had established with the Bush administration as "the indispensable ally", Sir Christopher claims, he could have delayed the war by six months.
OVER at CQ Roll Call, our sister publication, the estimable David Hawkings tells you precisely how much attention to pay to the president's budget proposal.
On consulting my version of that estimable work I found all three defined therein; but as mine is the 1964 edition can we deduce something about Bagehot's age?
THE usually estimable Nicholas Kristof takes a strange step here:Many years ago, when I studied Arabic intensively at the American University in Cairo, I was bewildered initially because for the first couple of months I learned only the past tense.
Against this background, constitutional change had the estimable advantage of appearing radical but costing little.
Even before Litvinenko, the estimable British ambassador was harassed by a Kremlin-backed youth group and the BBC obstructed.
Also estimable are poems dealing with family affection and personal loss and one poem to sleep.
In June the 42nd edition of Art Basel opened to great enthusiasm, but there was an estimable drop in American buyers.
Broadcast without commercials, this long-form debate suggested that television could assist the democratic process beyond the airing of 30-second commercials; it promised estimable uses for the new medium.
While the West End came up with only two worthwhile new plays all year Douglas Carter Beane's Broadway import The Little Dog Laughed, with Tamsin Greig laying down the law as a lesbian movie agent, and Nunn's staging of Sebastian Faulks's great novel of World War I, Birdsong the National preceded Earthquakes with no fewer than three estimable new dramas.
