Adjective

(en adjective)

Worthy of commendation; deserving praise; admirable, creditable or meritorious.

* circa 1600 , The Merchant of Venice ,Act I, scene I:

LThanks,i' faith; for silence is only commendable /In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Not commendable.

*{{quote-book, year=1874, author=Benj. N. Martin, title=Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=During the last two centuries men appear to have striven, with a most uncommendable zeal, all over Christendom, to root out and extirpate every trace of the Gothic. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1921, author=Alice Hegan Rice, title=Quin, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He arrived at the Eighty-second Street apartment about six o'clock in the evening, and, after studying the dingy name-plates, took the five flights of stairs with uncommendable speed, and presented himself at the rear door on the sixth floor. }}