Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without praise; undeserving of praise; without merit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without praise or approbation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without
praise orapprobation .
Etymologies
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praise + -less
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Examples
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_oratio_ next to _ratio_, speech next to reason, be the greatest gift bestowed upon mortality: that cannot be praiseless, which doth most polish that blessing of speech, which considers each word, not only
English literary criticism Various
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