Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being abused.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective That may be abused.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

abuse +‎ -able

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Examples

  • The actual charge was “resisting arrest without violence,” perhaps the most abusable statute on record.

    Coyote Blog » 2009 » December 2009

  • It is a common mistake to think that the Constitution is fool-proof, and therefore if something is potentially abusable it must be unconstitutional.

    Matthew Yglesias » How Big a Bank Tax? 2010

  • The actual charge was “resisting arrest without violence,” perhaps the most abusable statute on record.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Carlos Miller Wins His Appeal 2009

  • There is no doubt in my mind that the business vultures are circling the inventor of this robot at this very moment, offering him lucrative incentives to sell them his product so they can repackage it and market it as the ultimate sexually abusable sex toy.

    Female robot is the perfect companion, receptionist, sexual assault victim - Feministing 2008

  • This is only one consequence of the real story, that of the massive abuse of the expense system or more accurately, that of a massively abusable expense system that has clearly been milked.

    OPEN THREAD 2009

  • As a self-confessed occasional HYS commenter on the BBC, it seems even their 'moderators' are tarnished by the bias and the 'house rules' are taken from their 'little labour book of creating wooly, abusable, and loopholed and rules and laws'.

    OPEN THREAD 2009

  • Lost Valley - We started off liking it, and now think it's got great gaping holes in the abusable mechanics.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • Lost Valley - We started off liking it, and now think it's got great gaping holes in the abusable mechanics.

    January Gaming at the JSGC 2008

  • Could there possibly be a more amorphous term, abusable term?

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Implications of A Privacy Right 2005

  • Eminently abusable to say the least, almost too easy, like those inflatable clowns you could punch.

    Animal Rights Update 2005

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