illaudable

Etymology

From Late Latin illaudabilis.

Adjective

illaudable (comparative more illaudable, superlative most illaudable)

1. Not laudable; unpraiseworthy.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 2nd edition, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekens, 1650, Book V, Chapter 21, pp. 226-227,

     A custome there is in most parts of Europe, to adorn Aqueducts, spouts and Cisternes with Lions heads; which though no illaudable ornament, is an Egyptian continuation, who practised the same under a symbolicall illation.

   • 1753, Samuel Richardson, he History of Sir Charles Grandison, Dublin, Volume 6, Letter 27, p. 163,

     And this generally, with the thoughtless, is the beginning and progress of that formidable invader, miscalled Love; a word very happily at hand, to help giddy creatures to talk with and look without confusion of face on, a man telling them a thousand lyes, and hopeing, perhaps by illaudable means, to attain an end not in itself illaudable, when duty and discretion are, the one the guide, the other the gentle restraint.

   • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 11,

     […] Marianne abhorred all concealment where no real disgrace could attend unreserve; and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common-place and mistaken notions.