Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to admit; having the nature of an admission; containing an admission or acknowledgment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Implying an admission; tending to admit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending to
admit orallow .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by or allowing admission
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Examples
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"They were under oath, and that is admissive evidence."
Firms in gulf drilling are working to limit liability in spill 2010
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"They were under oath, and that is admissive evidence."
Firms in gulf drilling are working to limit liability in spill 2010
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"They were under oath and that is admissive evidence."
Firms in gulf drilling are working to limit liability in spill 2010
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"They were under oath and that is admissive evidence."
Firms in gulf drilling are working to limit liability in spill 2010
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The tone was admissive, and as if she had said, "_That_ is another thing!"
Real Folks 1865
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I have been thus precise, because criticism is to me not "a game," nor admissive of cogging and falsification.
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But just as Krugman's admissive humility has not compelled the return of a substantial honorarium for professional less-than-excellence, there seems no popular demand that we seriously re-think an economic system that delivers such reliable cycles of chronic inequity and invariable mayhem for the poor and unlucky.
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"They were under oath, and that is admissive evidence."
The Seattle Times 2010
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But just as Krugman's admissive humility has not compelled the return of a substantial honorarium for professional less-than-excellence, there seems no popular demand that we seriously re-think an economic system that delivers such reliable cycles of chronic inequity and invariable mayhem for the poor and unlucky.
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But just as Krugman's admissive humility has not compelled the return of a substantial honorarium for professional less-than-excellence, there seems no popular demand that we seriously re-think an economic system that delivers such reliable cycles of chronic inequity and invariable mayhem for the poor and unlucky.
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