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• n  an important, honorable person (word is often used humorously)
• a  having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable
  a worthy fellow
  a worthy cause
• s  worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse
• s  having qualities or abilities that merit recognition in some way
  behavior worthy of reprobation
  a fact worthy of attention

• This is just one of two Jack of Fables volumes out this year, both worthy of inclusion, as is another 2007 title, Fables: Sons of Empire.
• Refutable--but nevertheless grand and big enough to be worthy of respect.

• desirable
• suitable

• unworthy

News & Articles

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• The Most Gag-Worthy Quotes From Kanye West's New York Times Interview
  Respect my trendsetting abilities. Once that happens, everyone wins. The world wins.Kanye West gave a ridiculous, gag-worthy, self-important new interview to Jon Caramanica of The New York Times.
  June 12, 2013 - Business Insider
• Last Night’s Leftovers: Fried Chicken Edition
  Ten crave-worthy fried chicken dishes around D.C. [ Zagat ] Former penitentiary offers tasting of prison food throughout the years. [ NPR ] J&G Steakhouse is undergoing a makeover.
  June 12, 2013 - Washington City Paper
• 2013 MLB All-Star Game: 5 Under-the-Radar Players Worthy of an All-Star Berth
  There are a lot of players worthy of being selected to the 2013 MLB All-Star Game , but not all of them will make it. Thirty-three players make the AL All-Star team, and 33 players make the NL All-Star team. That means that a mere 66 players make the initial team, which is extremely tiny when you consider that 750 players are currently on active MLB rosters. Because less than 9 percent of the ...
  June 11, 2013 - Bleacher Report

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Economist
  Everyone in this chamber-Democrats and Republicans-will have to sacrifice some worthy priorities for which there are no dollars. And that includes me,Mr Obama said.
• Bruce Springsteen in Belfast Telegraph
  Implicitly attacking Mrs Clinton, Springsteen writes that "at the moment, critics have tried to diminish Senator Obama through the exaggeration of certain of his comments and relationships ...... While these matters are worthy of some...
• Theodore Roosevelt in Yuma Sun
  Roosevelt spoke of that person "who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those...