sufferable
Britishadjective
Other Word Forms
- sufferably adverb
Example Sentences
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“Jefferson said we’re disposed to suffer evils while evils are sufferable, so this is going to take extra effort,” Burns says.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2023
There's actually a provision in the Declaration of Independence that a people will suffer abuses while they remain sufferable, tolerable while they remain tolerable.
From Salon • Aug. 9, 2023
Religion helps make suffering sufferable, but so does science.
From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2018
The parents argued about which city’s weather was less sufferable, D.C.’s or Haifa’s.
From The New Yorker • May 30, 2016
But at last he began to feel a distaste for even these; and now nothing but the utter night-desolation of the obscurest warehousing lanes would content him, or be at all sufferable to him.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
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