resistible
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- interresistibility noun
- nonresistibility noun
- nonresistible adjective
- resistibility noun
- resistibleness noun
- resistibly adverb
- unresistible adjective
Etymology
Origin of resistible
Example Sentences
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Unfortunately, the resulting film, Joker: Folie à Deux, was something audiences found entirely resistible.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024
She won’t be able to shake them so easily; her premises aren’t resistible enough.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2021
But you don't have be an expert on the Third Reich to get Brecht's key point: that over-reaching power is always resistible.
From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2012
Some of the motifs — for example, a stride while shaking the head from side to side — are eminently resistible.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2011
Internally, the important institutional decisions seem to have been made by a process of accommodation and adaptation, with resistible forces always meeting movable objects.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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