Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Open to argument.
- adjective Capable of being argued plausibly; defensible in argument.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being argued; admitting argument.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being argued; admitting of debate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That which can be
argued ; i.e., that which can be proven or strongly supported with sound logical deduction, precedent, and evidence. - adjective colloquial Open to
doubt ,argument ordebate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective open to argument or debate
- adjective capable of being supported by argument
Etymologies
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Examples
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In practice, the DOJ has prosecuted people that are in arguable or probable non-compliance with the relevant State laws.
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I would say that Kwiec (sic) suggests that a position, which I consider barely arguable, is not only reasonable, but correct.
Balkinization 2007
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I would say that Kwiec (sic) suggests that a position, which I consider barely arguable, is not only reasonable, but correct.
Balkinization 2007
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I would say that Kwiec suggests that a position, which I consider barely arguable, is not only reasonable, but correct.
Balkinization 2007
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Ordinary legal indeterminacy of this sort, a fact of the law, does not mean that every legal position one comes up with, while arguable, is viable or persuasive, or that every disagreement on a legal issue is reasonable.
Balkinization 2007
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Ordinary legal indeterminacy of this sort, a fact of the law, does not mean that every legal position one comes up with, while arguable, is viable or persuasive, or that every disagreement on a legal issue is reasonable.
Balkinization 2007
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Ordinary legal indeterminacy of this sort, a fact of the law, does not mean that every legal position one comes up with, while arguable, is viable or persuasive, or that every disagreement on a legal issue is reasonable.
Balkinization 2007
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I would say that Kwiec (sic) suggests that a position, which I consider barely arguable, is not only reasonable, but correct.
Balkinization 2007
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I would say that Kwiec (sic) suggests that a position, which I consider barely arguable, is not only reasonable, but correct.
Balkinization 2007
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I would say that Kwiec suggests that a position, which I consider barely arguable, is not only reasonable, but correct.
Balkinization 2007
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