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Definition of exemplary in English: exemplaryadjective ɛɡˈzɛmpləriɪɡˈzɛmpləriɪɡˈzɛmpləri 1Serving as a desirable model; very good. Example sentencesExamples - However, the duke's performance on the road has not always been exemplary.
- Meanwhile, the Chelsea chairman has insisted the new Premiership champions have not received the credit they deserve this season for their exemplary behaviour on the pitch.
- When the report came back, Nike kept its contents secret, and continued to maintain that their factories were models of exemplary employee conditions.
- Among the exemplary health promotion programs reviewed, several were deemed to be particularly relevant to new immigrant women.
- The report said international cooperation that helped eradicate polio in all but seven countries was exemplary.
- This continual influx of well-prepared teachers supports the school's mission and vision of being an exemplary dual language school.
- He still dresses like a kid about to go outside and play a game of hoops in the street, but his preparation, concentration and behaviour are now exemplary.
- It says her behaviour is exemplary, she has ‘enhanced status’ in the prison and she works as the chaplain's orderly at Styal Prison.
- The ideal Arab Mother Award presented $10,000 to the most exemplary mother.
- Are my family aware of this negative trait in my otherwise exemplary character?
- The author and publisher deserve high praise for producing an exemplary model of its kind.
- Traditionally migration has been the principal response, with the US being exemplary in this respect.
- His work habits and attitudes are acknowledged by his employer as exemplary.
- She also shows how Sappho was identified by Victorian feminists with the cause of suffering women, serving simultaneously as model and as exemplary victim.
- Uncle is our inspiration and an exemplary role model to all as he is loyal, loving, caring and a mentor to us.
- Within the community she is also a key figure, particularly among local ethnic communities where she is viewed as an exemplary role model.
- Millwall's supporters stole the show, capping another trouble-free season with their exemplary behaviour before and after the match, and really getting behind the team from beginning to end.
- Indeed their job was made considerably easier by the exemplary behaviour of all the young players who travelled and represented both family and club with pride and distinction, as they have done all year.
- His commentaries survive because they were adopted as exemplary models by later commentators.
- Only for the Balokole is it intolerable, and even they have to accept that their own children may fail to model the exemplary life.
Synonyms perfect, ideal, model, faultless, without fault, copybook, flawless, impeccable, consummate excellent, outstanding, exceptional, admirable, fine, very good, commendable, laudable, praiseworthy, meritorious, honourable, estimable, above/beyond reproach, blameless, irreproachable, unimpeachable rare applaudable - 1.1 Characteristic of its kind or illustrating a general rule.
her works are exemplary of certain feminist arguments
2(of a punishment) serving as a warning or deterrent. exemplary sentencing may discourage the violent minority Example sentencesExamples - On 23 May 1995 he was discharged in the rank of Lance Sergeant with an exemplary discharge note.
- If there is exemplary punishment of the corporation and its officials, then other corporations will think twice before imposing risks on the life and health of ordinary people.
- However the criminal justice system might use an exemplary punishment to show that we will not put up with this.
- This kind of war all but inevitably produces exemplary punishments of civilians, destruction of homes and reprisals against the families of men fighting the occupation.
- Exemplary punishment of those found guilty by the inquiry committee, according to the law.
- Some faith was also placed in the power of judicial terror: the exemplary hanging.
- ‘I ask the court for an exemplary sentence,’ said Mr Rubira after the court heard two months of testimony.
- There may be valuable lessons, cautionary as well as exemplary, to be learned from the developments in the primary and community sectors.
- Public beheadings are routine in Saudi Arabia, but crucifixion is reserved as an exemplary punishment under sharia law for crimes of the utmost severity.
- ‘One way to stop this is for magistrates and the judiciary system to give exemplary sentences to anyone convicted,’ he said.
- Simply because driving tests are tough, laws are implemented rigorously and punishment is severe and exemplary and it doesn't matter who you are.
- The extremely brutal massacre of the family is the worst act of terrorism, which deserves an exemplary punishment.
- Those arrested and charged must be fast-tracked through the courts, and the courts must pass exemplary sentences on those found guilty of carrying knives.
- Only honesty isn't likely if the reward for it is crucifixion in the press, four different malpractice suits and an exemplary jail sentence.
- What in fact has occurred is the exemplary punishment of one worker.
- As long as the real perpetrators are not caught and punished with exemplary sentences, these attacks will continue to hurt innocent people.
- They are aimed at intimidating the population as a whole through the use of overwhelming military violence and the policy of exemplary punishment.
- Our leaders go through a ritualistic exercise, vowing to unearth the culprits immediately and giving them exemplary punishment.
- They could cut violent crime with exemplary sentences, murder by the death penalty or by making ‘life’ imprisonment, in practice about 12 years, live up to its name.
Synonyms serving as a deterrent cautionary, warning, admonitory rare monitory - 2.1Law (of damages) exceeding the amount needed for simple compensation.
Example sentencesExamples - Aggravated damages, which are not always readily distinguishable from exemplary damages, may both compensate and have a punitive effect.
- Franklin is counter-suing, claiming punitive and exemplary damages amounting to £18m.
- Did she not obtain the benefit of an award of aggravated or exemplary damages?
- Aggravated damages occupy a murky middle ground between normal compensatory damages and exemplary damages.
Derivatives adverb ɛɡˈzɛmplərɪliɪɡˈzɛmplərɪli ‘We urge the court to exemplarily condemn the six for the crime they committed,’ the public prosecutor told the court as the three-month old trial entered its final stage. Example sentencesExamples - That essay is exemplarily respectful of the ethic of the relation between different generations of thinkers, and of the elders of philosophy.
- His texts were meant to be both theoretical and exemplarily of new media's rhetorical possibility.
- Although hard-working, good-humoured, and exemplarily patient as a teacher, he was subject to violent mood swings and his ebullience could evaporate in a trice, to be replaced by a black suicidal depression which might last for months.
- Superbly pressed and with profits shared by surviving musicians, the reissues are exemplarily done, although in quite limited editions.
noun ɛɡˈzɛmplərɪnəsɪɡˈzɛmplərɪnəsɪɡˈzɛmplərinəs Those who are inspired by the exemplariness of his work, one hopes, will only gather strength as we remember him in the years to come. Example sentencesExamples - This aspect is the representation of exemplariness, a representation designed to work always, although it sometimes does so literally, sometimes figuratively.
- Simplicity in life and exemplariness in practice has been his hallmark.
- At the same time, in the ranks of politically committed criticism, the most radical critics attacked and destroyed the claim to exemplariness made by committed literature, and accused it of populism.
- The model, in selling the image of her body, sells at the same time, by virtue of her exemplariness, the image of the body of Algerian women as a whole.
noun ˌɛɡzɛmˈplarɪtiˌɛɡzɛmˈplɛrədi mass nounThe quality of serving as a desirable model or being very good. the exemplarity of her life made her the object of admiration and emulation Example sentencesExamples - More to the point, Griselda's problematic exemplarity is closely related to her status as a model of female virtue, a status that clearly affects how the message of the story is taken to apply to readers in the world outside the text.
- But in the 1860s and 70s, such exemplarity assumed a new cultural centrality and hegemonic power used not only for the management of poor pupils but for the cultivation of students at Oxbridge.
- She is interested in how female exemplarity and heroism are constructed in texts and images.
Origin Late 16th century: from late Latin exemplaris, from Latin exemplum 'sample, imitation' (see example). Definition of exemplary in US English: exemplaryadjectiveɪɡˈzɛmpləriiɡˈzemplərē 1Serving as a desirable model; representing the best of its kind. an award for exemplary community service Example sentencesExamples - His commentaries survive because they were adopted as exemplary models by later commentators.
- The ideal Arab Mother Award presented $10,000 to the most exemplary mother.
- Uncle is our inspiration and an exemplary role model to all as he is loyal, loving, caring and a mentor to us.
- Only for the Balokole is it intolerable, and even they have to accept that their own children may fail to model the exemplary life.
- Meanwhile, the Chelsea chairman has insisted the new Premiership champions have not received the credit they deserve this season for their exemplary behaviour on the pitch.
- Millwall's supporters stole the show, capping another trouble-free season with their exemplary behaviour before and after the match, and really getting behind the team from beginning to end.
- He still dresses like a kid about to go outside and play a game of hoops in the street, but his preparation, concentration and behaviour are now exemplary.
- The report said international cooperation that helped eradicate polio in all but seven countries was exemplary.
- When the report came back, Nike kept its contents secret, and continued to maintain that their factories were models of exemplary employee conditions.
- Among the exemplary health promotion programs reviewed, several were deemed to be particularly relevant to new immigrant women.
- Within the community she is also a key figure, particularly among local ethnic communities where she is viewed as an exemplary role model.
- Traditionally migration has been the principal response, with the US being exemplary in this respect.
- Indeed their job was made considerably easier by the exemplary behaviour of all the young players who travelled and represented both family and club with pride and distinction, as they have done all year.
- This continual influx of well-prepared teachers supports the school's mission and vision of being an exemplary dual language school.
- Are my family aware of this negative trait in my otherwise exemplary character?
- However, the duke's performance on the road has not always been exemplary.
- It says her behaviour is exemplary, she has ‘enhanced status’ in the prison and she works as the chaplain's orderly at Styal Prison.
- His work habits and attitudes are acknowledged by his employer as exemplary.
- The author and publisher deserve high praise for producing an exemplary model of its kind.
- She also shows how Sappho was identified by Victorian feminists with the cause of suffering women, serving simultaneously as model and as exemplary victim.
Synonyms perfect, ideal, model, faultless, without fault, copybook, flawless, impeccable, consummate - 1.1 Characteristic of its kind or illustrating a general rule.
her works are exemplary of certain feminist arguments
2(of a punishment) serving as a warning or deterrent. exemplary sentencing may discourage the ultraviolent minority Example sentencesExamples - What in fact has occurred is the exemplary punishment of one worker.
- ‘One way to stop this is for magistrates and the judiciary system to give exemplary sentences to anyone convicted,’ he said.
- Exemplary punishment of those found guilty by the inquiry committee, according to the law.
- Public beheadings are routine in Saudi Arabia, but crucifixion is reserved as an exemplary punishment under sharia law for crimes of the utmost severity.
- They are aimed at intimidating the population as a whole through the use of overwhelming military violence and the policy of exemplary punishment.
- ‘I ask the court for an exemplary sentence,’ said Mr Rubira after the court heard two months of testimony.
- They could cut violent crime with exemplary sentences, murder by the death penalty or by making ‘life’ imprisonment, in practice about 12 years, live up to its name.
- Only honesty isn't likely if the reward for it is crucifixion in the press, four different malpractice suits and an exemplary jail sentence.
- Simply because driving tests are tough, laws are implemented rigorously and punishment is severe and exemplary and it doesn't matter who you are.
- If there is exemplary punishment of the corporation and its officials, then other corporations will think twice before imposing risks on the life and health of ordinary people.
- As long as the real perpetrators are not caught and punished with exemplary sentences, these attacks will continue to hurt innocent people.
- On 23 May 1995 he was discharged in the rank of Lance Sergeant with an exemplary discharge note.
- Some faith was also placed in the power of judicial terror: the exemplary hanging.
- The extremely brutal massacre of the family is the worst act of terrorism, which deserves an exemplary punishment.
- Our leaders go through a ritualistic exercise, vowing to unearth the culprits immediately and giving them exemplary punishment.
- There may be valuable lessons, cautionary as well as exemplary, to be learned from the developments in the primary and community sectors.
- However the criminal justice system might use an exemplary punishment to show that we will not put up with this.
- This kind of war all but inevitably produces exemplary punishments of civilians, destruction of homes and reprisals against the families of men fighting the occupation.
- Those arrested and charged must be fast-tracked through the courts, and the courts must pass exemplary sentences on those found guilty of carrying knives.
- 2.1Law (of damages) exceeding the amount needed for simple compensation.
Example sentencesExamples - Aggravated damages occupy a murky middle ground between normal compensatory damages and exemplary damages.
- Aggravated damages, which are not always readily distinguishable from exemplary damages, may both compensate and have a punitive effect.
- Did she not obtain the benefit of an award of aggravated or exemplary damages?
- Franklin is counter-suing, claiming punitive and exemplary damages amounting to £18m.
Origin Late 16th century: from late Latin exemplaris, from Latin exemplum ‘sample, imitation’ (see example). |