Definitions
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- adjective Meriting
disbarment .
Etymologies
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disbar + -able
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Examples
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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
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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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