persuadable

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Ah, but this time there was, you see, with the Austrian border drawing nearer by the minute, so I must bide my time and delude the aliens as seemed best, listening to their lunatic notions as though I might be persuadable, and waiting my chance to cut and run.

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  • What your friend says of the people being more persuadable, so far, as having no Tithe-controversy, —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
  • It wouldn't be fair to him, because he would get the impression she was still "persuadable." —  Dance Of Desire
  • Altogether fetching-and intelligent enough to be persuadable, in case she had any doubts about accommodating de massa wid de muffstash on his face. —  Flashman And The Redskins
  • Ah, but this time there was, you see, with the Austrian border drawing nearer by the minute, so I must bide my time and delude the aliens as seemed best, listening to their lunatic notions as though I might be persuadable, and waiting my chance to cut and run. —  Watershed
  • And I saw today where 14 percent of the electorate are considered persuadable, they're either undecided or they're soft, they're not sure, they kind of maybe leaning this way today. —  CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2008
 

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  1. from persuade + -able. Cf. Italian persuadibile = Portuguese persuadivel, from Middle Latin persuadibilis, from Latin persuadere, persuade. Cf. also persuasible.
 

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