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Illaudable, il-law′da-bl, adj. not laudable or praiseworthy.—adv.

But the vigilance of a fond father was too easily eluded by the subtilties of an enterprising man, who spared neither time nor money to compass his illaudable schemes.

The Verses on the unfortunate Lady have drawn much attention by the illaudable singularity of treating suicide with respect; and they must be allowed to be written, in some parts, with vigorous animation, and, in others, with gentle tenderness; nor has Pope produced any poem in which the sense predominates more over the diction.

Whereupon it came to passe, that all the commendable parts of speech were set foorth by the name of figures, and all the illaudable partes vnder the name of vices, or viciosities, of both which it shall bee spoken in their places.

Antonyms: illaudable, unpraiseworthy, indign. prance, v. cavort. prank, n. trick, antic, frolic, caper. prankish, a. playful, frolicsome, sportive, mischievous, gamesome. prate, v. babble, gabble, clatter, chatter, prattle.