illaudable

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for illaudable
Adjective
  • Repressed and lingering scars from childhood can certainly cause pain for entire communities and be a catalyst for terrible and reprehensible behaviors.
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Free speech scholars maintain the most vile and reprehensible speech, including that which celebrates someone's death, is legally protected — not from the consequences meted by private employers, but from government suppression.
    Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The San Francisco 49ers are running themselves right out of games with all these worthless carries by Christian McCaffrey.
    Michael Salfino, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • But these glasses are worthless without a mobile phone.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The real fiends were the ones who perverted science, who attacked this misunderstood giant out of fear, who branded him as something unholy and unworthy to exist, who gave him life but didn’t give him love.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The brain is surrounded by a layer of tightly joined cells, called the blood-brain barrier, that acts as a bouncer turning away any substances deemed unworthy of accessing our most precious resource.
    Matt Fuchs, Time, 2 Sep. 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
  • This kind of violence in a place of worship is despicable.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Someone may have had the impulse to say something despicable about the assassination of Kirk or expressed some repulsive attitudes towards a particular group of people that warranted social pressure.
    Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 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
  • The Browns have scored the second-fewest points in the NFL, ahead of only the pitiful Tennessee Titans.
    Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
  • On the side of the highway, Wilson cuts a pitiful, solitary figure.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Advocating for the assassination of political opponents is deplorable and fundamentally contrary to Texan values.
    Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The charges come after officials described deplorable living conditions in the home, news outlets reported.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Illaudable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illaudable. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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