Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Deserving chastisement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable or deserving of chastisement; punishable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable or deserving of
chastisement ;punishable .
Etymologies
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chastise + -able
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Examples
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Apart from perhaps Benidorm, the channel has crawled on its underachieving arse, scrabbling for a slice of the sit-com sterling with shoddy offerings like the embarrassing, and thorough chastisable Martin Freeman led Hardware.
Playing Hunter, Inadequate Special Editions And Just One Last Question… | Obsessed With Film 2009
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It would rude and chastisable, for example, to knowingly speak as Mr. Tynan did in front of one’s Jewish mother-in-law.
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