impeachable
[im-pee-chuh-buh l]
- making one subject to impeachment, as misconduct in office.
- liable to be impeached.
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Origin of impeachable
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Contemporary Examples
The impeachable crime is admitted but the guilt runs too deep to die so easily.
A broad bipartisan House Judiciary Committee majority found his sins to rise to the level of impeachable offenses.
Sending a young woman a lewd photo is not an impeachable offense, but it is monumentally bad judgment.
But has Judge Bybee committed an impeachable offense by signing off on these memos?
Historical Examples
The same act committed with a criminal motive would be impeachable, which without it would be of a nature not to admit of it.
If that act were repealed, he said, the election of every officer of a corporation would be impeachable.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III.E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
Let him doubt, if he can, of the impeachable nature of the offence which was charged upon the President.
Thirty Years' View (Vol. I of 2)Thomas Hart Benton
Subversive of the rights of defence, which belong to an accused and impeachable officer.
Thirty Years' View (Vol. I of 2)Thomas Hart Benton
The managers of the impeachment were far from consistent in their conception of the nature of impeachable offenses.
Union and DemocracyAllen Johnson
impeachable
- capable of being impeached or accused
- (of an offence) making a person liable to impeachment
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Word Origin and History for impeachable
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