Sentence examples for less than laudable from inspiring English sources
While they may not be revolutionary, however, their conviction is infectious and their commitment to being evil nothing less than laudable.
After all, while a commitment to chastity can be virtuous, it can also be born out of less than laudable motives: the need to exercise control, anger toward and fear of sex, and so on.
But he rightly saw the distinction between those laudable goals and the less-than-laudable efforts to force low-tax countries to impose more exactions on their citizens.
It's hard to be anything less than enthusiastic about such a laudable outcome, but I can't help but think we can do better.
There were constant reminders that the real, whole Jade was composed of all sorts of chaotic elements, some less laudable than others, but this sanitised view absorbed them all.
Hansen told reporters at a press conference yesterday that he hoped the paper to be published online this week would influence global climate talks this December in Paris and encourage negotiators to reconsider their goal of keeping warming to less than 2°C above preindustrial levels, a laudable but insufficient target, some scientists say.
And nowadays it's more laughable than laudable.
This seems questionable rather than laudable from a gender perspective.
His wishlist for scientists begins, simply, with "The Prolongation of Life", a laudable goal considering life expectancy at birth at the time was less than 40 years old.
Controlling inflation and responsible economic management sound laudable, but with growth sluggish, the government's credibility on this issue is less than it used to be.
