Word Meanings - DISCOMMENDABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to DISCOMMENDABLE)

• 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.