defensible
adjective
capable of being defended against assault or injury.
defensibly
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a word derived from
defensible.
Example Sentences
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Yet administrators hide behind a 2021 consultant’s report that claims it acted defensibly.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
There was a time when courts might defensibly have shrugged off a constitutional challenge to school discipline as being too insignificant for the proverbial “federal case.”
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2021
"Paltering is only important in a world where communicators feel they have to be able to say something that's defensibly true," Rogers said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2017
"Paltering is only important in a world where communicators feel they have to be able to say something that’s defensibly true," Rogers said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2016
As if one might just as easily, and defensibly, have picked a novel by Jeffrey Archer as the winner.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2011
