satiable
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- nonsatiability noun
- nonsatiable adjective
- satiability noun
- satiableness noun
- satiably adverb
- unsatiability noun
- unsatiable adjective
- unsatiableness noun
- unsatiably adverb
Etymology
Origin of satiable
Example Sentences
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Yet the appetite for Citroen cars is so in satiable that the company last week stretched out the waiting time for delivery of some of its models from two to three months.
From Time Magazine Archive
Machines at New Jersey's Sterling Drug Inc. have just produced their 100 billionth Bayer aspirin tablet for the in satiable U.S. market.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the time she was able to be up and out even Mary Brooks, with her "satiable curiosity," had forgotten to ask why she went to New York.
From Betty Wales, Sophomore by Warde, Margaret
A tale like Kipling's The Elephant's Child would be ruined without those clinging epithets, such as "the wait-a-bit thorn-bush," "mere-smear nose," "slushy squshy mud-cap," "Bi-Colored-Python-Rock-Snake," and "satiable curtiosity."
From A Study of Fairy Tales by Kready, Laura F.
In general, however, commodities which minister to easily satiable wants are ill-adapted for money.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
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