Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of being lost; liable to be lost.
Wiktionary
- adj. that can be lost
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Such as can be lost.
Examples
“He knew that the war was not winnable and was very losable.”
“A new treaty could take three months to negotiate and may require losable referendums in countries such as Ireland.”
“All these games are winnable and losable no matter what you've done the week before," cautioned Johnson, reaching for one more verbal bucket of cold water.”
The Guardian: Hendre Fourie and Matt Banahan amplify the depth of England's advances
“All these games are winnable and losable, no matter what you've done the week before," Johnson said.”
The Guardian: From turmoil to vindication, Martin Johnson has cause for satisfaction
“I favor him over Obama who is just a media phenom whose self-adoration and Harvard elitism is going to cause him to lose the un-losable election.”
McCain Raises $27 Million in July - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“Because it will just be another turn in his ongoing downward spiral toward losing the un-losable election.”
“And I can look for safety in giving myself away to the world's least losable things.”
“The functional pacifists, Kilcullens and others are devoted to making warfare symmetrical — that is, from the point of the US, losable — while saying the opposite.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Targeted Killing in US Counterterrorism Strategy and Law:
“Well, it's probably got something to do with the fact that those experts have lost two "un-losable" elections in a row already.”
“The president has squandered American budget surpluses, is in the process of losing an un-losable war in Afghanistan, doomed the military to a multi-generational quagmire in Iran and engineered the loss of our nation's position as the world's unquestioned leader in moral, military and economic matters.”
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