Meanings of laudable desire in English

Nothing is easier, Madam, than the gratification of your laudable desire.

Behind almost all these letters there lies a laudable desire to achieve success.

Where Paul was bold, Macaulay exhibited a laudable desire to do his duty.

They bear a good reputation for morality, and manifest a laudable desire for mental improvement.

A natural and laudable desire, ma'am; but one which, notwithstanding, I shall do my best to oppose.

Both are an indication of a laudable desire to be unmistakably in the movement of one's day.

With a laudable desire to save money, they spend themselves, and "get along" without help.

The workman has a natural and laudable desire to share more fully in the good things of life.

It has been introduced, no doubt, with a laudable desire to obviate the uncertainty at present attending irregular marriages.

The agents of the society manifested a laudable desire to conform to the wishes of the Government throughout the transaction.

His evidence will hang those six poor fellows, from the laudable desire of the law to include the right one.

The question was asked, not so much from a laudable desire of obtaining information as to set the captain talking.

If I stood over my mirror longer than usual, remember I was young, and had a laudable desire to please.

Your horse possesses a laudable desire to spare your inside leg unnecessary abrasion, so he walks on the extreme outer edge.

However unfortunately his business undertakings resulted, they were, after all, but the outcome of a natural and laudable desire to be usefully employed.

Within bounds, this is a reasonable and laudable desire, but it also covers many sins-poormaterials, bad workmanship, faulty manufacturing and often fraud.