Sentence examples for less praiseworthy from inspiring English sources

The United States government lawyers, though, said his conduct regarding the Sotheby's statue, known as the Duryodhana, was less praiseworthy.

First, do strong norms enforcing sharing sometimes ironically undercut gratitude by rendering acts of generosity more obligatory and thus less praiseworthy?

It would have been more appropriate and, more importantly, diplomatic to have emphasised some of the less praiseworthy attributes that burglary requires: dishonesty, unkindness, selfishness, thoughtlessness, disdain for the integrity of a window, raging narcotic withdrawal.

The design of the adventure game Fate by Numbers is less praiseworthy, but Fate has to be given credit for being possibly the most ambitious homemade free game ever.

However, Leibniz adds, a world in which God is required to perform continuous miracles is a world less perfect, and thereby less praiseworthy, than a world that "unfolds" naturally without the direct intervention of God (Theodicy §16).

Less praiseworthy was the video screen behind the stage.

Some of the dishes, especially the appetizers, were less than praiseworthy.

For Hume there is a moral point of view from which Newton's achievements may seem less than entirely praiseworthy.

Ms. Eisenman's desire to do what comes less naturally may be praiseworthy, but in her studentlike attempt to paint like the old masters she risks disconnection from her own darker and more wildly idiosyncratic impulses.

Like Mr Chait, I don't mean this moralistically; certainly progressives think the party would be more morally praiseworthy if it were more truculent, not less.

ROSS DOUTHAT thinks liberals should object less strenuously to the Hobby Lobby decision because religion often impels corporations to do things that liberals would consider morally praiseworthy.