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Word Meanings - DISCOMMENDABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Deserving, disapprobation or blame. -- Dis`com*mend"a*ble*ness, n.

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  • DESERVEDNESS
    Meritoriousness.
  • DESERVE
    1. To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise. God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job xi. 6. John
  • BLAME
    LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. to speak ill to slander, to blaspheme, fr. evil speaking, perh, for ; injury + a saying, fr. to 1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves.
  • BLAMER
    One who blames. Wyclif.
  • DESERVEDLY
    According to desert ; justly.
  • DISAPPROBATION
    The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure. We have ever expressed the most unqualified disapprobation of all the steps. Burke.
  • DESERVING
    Desert; merit. A person of great deservings from the republic. Swift.
  • BLAMEFUL
    1. Faulty; meriting blame. Shak. 2. Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious. Chaucer. -- Blame"ful*ly, adv. -- Blame"ful*ness, n.
  • BLAMEWORTHY
    Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible. -- Blame"wor`thi*ness, n.
  • BLAMELESS
    Free from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless; -- sometimes followed by of. A bishop then must be blameless. 1 Tim. iii. 2. Blameless still of arts that polish to deprave. Mallet. We will be blameless of this thine oath. Josh. ii. 17. Syn.
  • BLAMELESSNESS
    The quality or state of being blameless; innocence.
  • DESERVER
    One who deserves.
  • BLAMELESSLY
    In a blameless manner.
  • UNDESERVER
    One of no merit; one who is nor deserving or worthy. Shak.
  • DISBLAME
    To clear from blame. Chaucer.
  • UNDESERVE
    To fail to deserve. Milton.

 

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