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  • adjective Meriting disbarment.

Etymologies

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disbar +‎ -able

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Examples

  • Nifong lied to the State Bar Grievance group, which in and of itself is a disbarrable offense.

    "Systematic abuse of prosecutorial discretion." Ann Althouse 2007

  • I will not claim that the profession has only a few bad applesit has a lot of them, perhaps as much as a third of the active bar being disbarrable on ethical grounds if enforcement were at all vigorousbut keeping those virtually certain to cause ethics problems out of the profession is a good start.

    Scrivener's Error 2003

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