sufferable
Britishadjective
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All of this in May, normally a sufferable month in Miami compared with the three or four that follow.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2024
“Jefferson said we’re disposed to suffer evils while evils are sufferable, so this is going to take extra effort,” Burns says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2023
There's actually a provision in the Declaration of Independence that a people will suffer abuses while they remain sufferable, tolerable while they remain tolerable.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2023
The parents argued about which city’s weather was less sufferable, D.C.’s or Haifa’s.
From The New Yorker ● May 30, 2016
But at last he began to feel a distaste for even these; and now nothing but the utter night-desolation of the obscurest warehousing lanes would content him, or be at all sufferable to him.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
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