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admire

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Something about it I admire and something about it I find unpersuasive.

He also recalls the many visitors who would often go to the island to admire its harvests and wildlife.

You have to admire his convictions; most frustrated auteurs in this town just call such things “an Alan Smithee project.”

He allows the subject to float over to Hitchcock with a calm directness that I admire.

It rests in the message of hope in songs so many young Americans admire: New Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen.

Let them that sail on the sea, tell the dangers thereof: and when we hear with our ears, we shall admire.

I'd admire to see him cavorting around on the pinnacles after horse-thieves or whisky-runners or a bunch of bad Indians.

We idlers had permission granted us to land and visit the town, in which, however, we found but little to admire.

The dining room was for the souls of the locals, who could admire the desert more conveniently than find a good meal.

I greatly admire his character, but he positively could not have made his way along the fire trenches I inspected yesterday.

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On this page you'll find 125 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to admire, such as: adore, applaud, appreciate, cherish, commend, and credit.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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