Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being refused; admitting refusal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being refused; admitting of refusal.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective That can be refused.

Etymologies

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refuse +‎ -able

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Examples

  • For a while Mrs Gosch found this eminently refusable, but Poldek's powers of perseverance and undentable charm wore her down.

    Archive 2004-09-01 M-mv 2004

  • For a while Mrs Gosch found this eminently refusable, but Poldek's powers of perseverance and undentable charm wore her down.

    The story of Oskar Schindler M-mv 2004

  • So that it comes to pass, according to them, that the reasoning about actions regards neither things desirable nor things refusable; but that aiming at other things, which they neither shun nor choose, they make life and death to depend on these.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Society this past July, relative to the sessions organized around the thread on animals: is the supposedly incalcuable and irreducible non-human "call" (whether "animal" or something else) refusable [?], and if it is not, are we just re-instituting sacramental spaces

    In the Middle 2010

  • But it’s a good assignment and the money is un-refusable.

    Cherie Priest » Blog Archive » September 26, 2007 2007

  • But it’s a good assignment and the money is un-refusable.

    Cherie Priest » 2007 » September 2007

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