illaudable

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for illaudable
Adjective
  • Their reprehensible posts and videos will always be there, thanks to screenshots, and searchable by, say, potential future employers, neighbors and friends.
    Boston Herald editorial staff, Boston Herald, 8 July 2025
  • Israel’s bombing of Evin lays bare what happens when two reprehensible systems collide: one that cages the innocent, and another that claims to liberate them with bombs.
    Siamak Namazi, Time, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • Otherwise their responses to art would be worthless.
    Charlotte Runcie July 10, Literary Hub, 10 July 2025
  • The incumbents protect the fort until the fort is worthless (cliche cf.
    Forrester, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • In short, to be born a non-human animal in today’s world is to be viewed as being unworthy of life.
    GrrlScientist, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
  • Many people prefer morning showers because, without them, their hair is a wreck unworthy of public display.
    Matt Fuchs, Time, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • By the way, the search for waste, fraud and abuse — call it WFA — has a long and discreditable history.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Any review of these discreditable events requires recognition of an antidote to this foolishness.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 13 Jan. 2024
Adjective
  • The deliberate misrepresentation of his record by Moore is truly despicable.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2025
  • As Bertram, Gabriel Brown played well the spoiled and despicable cad.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2025
Adjective
  • The death of Pope Francis, sadly, has not escaped the attention of these truly contemptible criminals.
    Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • At the time, some of LeBron’s critics saw this as contemptible.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • My pansies are pitiful, the lavender is languishing and the salvia is suffering.
    Barbara Ellis, Denver Post, 7 July 2025
  • Something about this one note prompted even this pitiful creature to a risky gesture of mercy.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 14 May 2025
Adjective
  • Canton couple accused of keeping animals in 'deplorable conditions' A 41-year-old Canton, Ohio, woman was recently arrested and charged with domestic violence and taken to jail.
    Jenny Porter Tilley, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • And for Trump’s onetime pirate ship of a political movement, Butterworth’s represents an ostentatious new evolutionary phase: the deplorable as arriviste.
    Robert Draper, New York Times, 2 June 2025
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“Illaudable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illaudable. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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