sufferable
Britishadjective
Other Word Forms
- sufferably adverb
Example Sentences
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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
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
At 160 minutes and on a second encounter, “Bardo” is — how to put this? — sufferable.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2022
The parents argued about which city’s weather was less sufferable, D.C.’s or Haifa’s.
From The New Yorker • May 30, 2016
It is a peep, a part revelation, just sufferable, of the Olympian god—Jove playing carpet-knight.
From The Egoist by Meredith, George
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