allowable
adjective
that may be allowed; legitimate; permissible.
unallowable
-
a word derived from
allowable.
Example Sentences
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This is a function of the nature of words to be true or false, allowable or unallowable.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
The department doesn't have authority to reject a district's spending, she said, unless it's "definitely unallowable."
From Fox News ● Oct. 6, 2021
While Living Well Kent was “extremely responsive to community needs,” the county found, “vital information was missing from the client records sampled” and it had “billed for unallowable expenses.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2021
“Why is Hansen’s claim that, for the health of the planet, we reduce our greenhouse gas emissions an unallowable example of advocacy,” Holthaus asks, “when we trust a doctor’s recommendation that we stop smoking cigarettes?”
From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2016
It formed what she would have called a background to her life, and gave her the liberty of doing many things which would have been unallowable to persons of less distinguished ancestry.
From The Philistines by Arlo Bates
