unpraiseworthy

“See, then, O King,” continued the Wazir “what cometh of precipitance; verily, it is unpraiseworthy and bequeatheth repentance; and in this I give thee true advice and loyal counsel.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The use of "cover stories" to conceal such a relationship, apart from any proceeding, is, however unpraiseworthy, not unusual and certainly not an obstruction of justice.

Submission By Counsel For President Clinton To The Committee ITY National Archives 1998

By its curious tautology, the self-referential paradox abolishes the possibility of external measuring-rods; praise of the conventionally unpraiseworthy, however, is itself a measuring rod, of the standards by which values are established.

LITERARY PARADOX ROSALIE L. COLIE 1968

And the native discrimination was not altogether unpraiseworthy, if the later French missionaries can be exonerated from national prejudice, when they declare that the Caribs said Spaniards were meagre and indigestible, while a Frenchman made a succulent and peptic meal.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various

Sing Lee who stood just without the trap door through which he was about to pass Professor Maxon's evening meal to him could not be blamed for overhearing the conversation, though it may have been culpable in him in making no effort to divulge his presence, and possibly equally unpraiseworthy, as well as lacking in romance, to attribute the doctor's avowal to his knowledge of the heavy chest.

The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

The rivalry between them was soon apparent; it was entirely good natured on Gilbert's side; but it is much to be feared that the same thing cannot be said of Anne, who had certainly an unpraiseworthy tenacity for holding grudges.

Anne of Green Gables 1908

A certain ambitious and not unpraiseworthy pride, too, and a strong sense of gratitude and obligation to those who were befriending and helping them, particularly strong in Jim, were causing both boys to make the most of the opportunities offered to them.

Uncle Rutherford's Nieces A Story for Girls 1875

"See, then, O King," continued the Wazir "what cometh of precipitance; verily, it is unpraiseworthy and bequeatheth repentance; and in this I give thee true advice and loyal counsel."

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

[FN#369] i.e. renounce the craft which though not sinful (harám) is makrúh or religiously unpraiseworthy; Mohammed having objected to music and indeed to the arts in general.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

We do not mean to say that this minute exegesis is useless or unpraiseworthy, but only that it should be subsidiary to the larger way.

Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855