Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being criticized.

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  • adjective Able to be criticized.

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Examples

  • Therefore a major blogger who gives other major bloggers a lot of criticizable material to work with is likely going to get a lot of links.

    Matthew Yglesias » Health Care Paranoia 2010

  • I don't see why you think that's at all surprising or criticizable on grounds of race.

    It's a simple principle, really. CC 2008

  • Now a scientific study is a scientific study — inherently criticizable — but surely there are more plausible criticisms than that!

    The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism | Jewschool 2004

  • If someone who doesn't care about his family or about human beings in general, always fails to act helpfully toward others, he exhibits a lack of caring, and an ethic of caring regards acts which display such morally deficient motivation as morally criticizable and wrong.

    Justice as a Virtue Slote, Michael 2002

  • Bettencourt lawyer Jean-Rene Farthouat called Monday's decision by a judge in the western Paris suburb of Courbevoie "profoundly disappointing" and "quite simply criticizable."

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter 2011

  • On the other hand, they are using graphs from papers that are criticizable because of the very same reasons and they essentially encourage the reader to think that these reconstructions are trustworthy even though the actual content of the chapters 9 and 11 leads to the opposite conclusion.

    The Reference Frame 2010

  • God is envisioned as the Law giver, but also as subject to or criticizable in accord with the Law -- and sometimes envisioned as consulting the Law in order to decide how to act.

    Tikkun Magazine - Current Thinking 2009

  • This is also crucial in rendering ethics criticizable.

    Latest Articles American Vision 2009

  • The law of karma, just like the Will of God, exists beyond the sensible human world, and therefore is not objectively determinable, and therefore any ethic based on it is not criticizable on an objective basis.

    Latest Articles American Vision 2009

  • God is envisioned as the Law giver, but also as subject to or criticizable in accord with the Law -- and sometimes envisioned as consulting the Law in order to decide how to act.

    Tikkun Magazine - Current Thinking 2009

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