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  • adjective That can be robbed; susceptible to robbery.

Etymologies

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rob +‎ -able

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Examples

  • Dick had as great a confidence in his ability to fabricate plausible stories as he had in his eye for a robbable house.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • I told her about Hudson's organisation, about the Melbourne gallery, and about the list of robbable customers.

    In The Frame Francis, Dick 1976

  • And not mere sheep gregarious, warm-fleeced, robbable.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 5, 1890 Various

  • That members and families of the British Army of the Rhine suffered severely from burglaries probably reflected the fact, not that thieves had particular animus against the forces of occupation, but that these days foreigners were so much more robbable than anyone else.

    Mises Dailies 2009

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