Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being tortured.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being tortured.
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- adjective Capable of being
tortured .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now perhaps some future court might decide that these methods, as applied to people whose status generally makes them "non-torturable," actually exceeded the president's powers, even in wartime.
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As irregular soldiers, they are, in essence, spies, and are therefore “torturable” and infinitely detainable.
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This torturable class that I argue is present in almost every society.
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In each of these cases, the victims came from what Mr. Conroy calls a "torturable class" – poor Catholics in Ulster, Palestinian Arabs, illiterate African-American convicts – which can be portrayed as beyond the civilized pale.
Case Studies in Brutality: The Ugliness of Ordinary Folk 1988
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Now perhaps some future court might decide that these methods, as applied to people whose status generally makes them "non-torturable," actually exceeded the President's powers, even in wartime.
The RBC 2009
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Now perhaps some future court might decide that these methods, as applied to people whose status generally makes them "non-torturable," actually exceeded the President's powers, even in wartime.
The RBC 2009
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