permissible
adjective
that can be permitted; allowable.
permissibly
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a word derived from
permissible.
Example Sentences
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“What we’re seeing, basically, is that risk analysis for some providers is saying there’s just too much risk involved, even if they can legally and permissibly provide this service.”
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2023
County case and others raise questions about “where are the lines that you draw for what courts can permissibly require parents to do with threat of a custody loss.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2022
“As to the one unnamed legal client, we do not believe that Mr. Cohen should be asked to reveal the name or can permissibly do so,” the letter said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 2018
A lawyer for the captain has said that Mr. Sieboldt-Berry told police he permissibly turned off an identification system once last year to avoid pirates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2018
One may permissibly estimate this foible to have weighed with him a little, even now, just as in all things it had always weighed in Lichfield with all his generation.
From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by James Branch Cabell
