sufferable

/ (ˈsʌfərəbəl, ˈsʌfrə-) /

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adjective

able to be tolerated or suffered; endurable

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In the UK, COTTON CANDY is more commonly known as…

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candypuff

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Derived forms of sufferable

sufferably, adverb

Words nearby sufferable

Suez Canal, Suez Canal crisis, suf-, suff., suffer, sufferable, sufferance, suffer fools gladly, suffering, Suffern, suffice

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How to use sufferable in a sentence

Lady Ann was offended, and seriously: was alliance with such a woman permissible or sufferable?
There and Back|George MacDonald
It was something besides the river that made the air so much more sufferable than it had been.
The March Family Trilogy, Complete|William Dean Howells
Yet no man will, at this day, pretend that the Greek of his prize ode is sufferable.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845|Various
Such viragoes are in a measure sufferable, for they are sometimes in a good-humour.
Sheppard Lee, Vol. I (of 2)|Robert Montgomery Bird

Even Bully Pigeon was sufferable (as Paddy observed), if he was not altogether agreeable.
The Three Midshipmen|W.H.G. Kingston

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