uncommendable
adjEtymology From un- + commendable.
1
Not commendable.
- 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.1874, Benj. N. Martin, Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader:
- 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.1921, Alice Hegan Rice, Quin:
- Derived terms
- uncommendably