honorable

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As for Riggins, well, it was another great week for Taylor Kitsch, who not only lived up to the forgiving Coach's word for him - "honorable" - but also did some great Riggins Things such as making that nice zinger to neighbor Jackie about how, now that she'd gone through him and his brother, she might want to complete the "Riggins trifecta" and put the moves on his father.

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  1. adjective Deserving or winning honor and respect: led an honorable life.
  2. adjective Bringing distinction or recognition: honorable service to one's nation.
  3. adjective Possessing and characterized by honor: an honorable person.

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  • The Lalla Rookh curtains intruded continually into his problems and his calculations dissolved helplessly into an idle stare at a jumble of figures He got up at last, restless, walked through the trainmaster's room, into the despatcher's office, and stumbled on the tragedy of the night It came about through an ambition in itself honorable--the ambition of Bud Cawkins to become a train-despatcher Bud began railroading on the Wind River. —  The Daughter of a Magnate
  • But make these partnerships honorable, and the men and women who enter into them will act honorably. —  Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards
  • But we managed to persuade the army authorities that I could get better treatment at home, and they gave me a disability discharge in about ten months--honorable, of course. —  The White Desert
  • "So long as he means honorable, and car'ies out his actions fa'r and squar', I don't begrudge him his chance nor meddle in his affa'rs Our attention was suddenly diverted from this subject, which was evidently growing to be a painful one to one of the company, by the sound of a violin played with, singular skill and correctness just outside the window Glory, there's Lute!" —  Cape Cod Folks
  • Thinks I, if his intentions are all squar' and honorable--and I hadn't no reason, then, to say they wa'n't--and them, two take a fancy to each other, why, it ain't no more than nateral She was handsome enough, for a queen, and he had different manners from us fellows down here, and purtier ways o' talkin' and lookin' at a girl, as though if she didn't have him, it was goin' to knock 'im straight, and she'd lived with such different folks, it made it vary interestin'; that was nateral. —  Cape Cod Folks
 

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honourable ·  honest ·  humane ·  reasonable ·  loyal ·  respectable ·  prudent
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