Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a bearable manner.
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- adverb In a
bearable manner.
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Examples
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"bearably" safe environment, while 69 percent believed their environment was unsafe or extremely unsafe.
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As Hofmann identifies, Joseph Roth senses that things will get steadily worse for the Jews of Europe but hopefully bearably so, "what happened instead was the Holocaust".
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As Hofmann identifies, Joseph Roth senses that things will get steadily worse for the Jews of Europe but hopefully bearably so, "what happened instead was the Holocaust".
The Wrath of Roth 2007
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As Hofmann identifies, Joseph Roth senses that things will get steadily worse for the Jews of Europe but hopefully bearably so, "what happened instead was the Holocaust".
The Wrath of Roth 2007
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What I know is that the last time a lot of Americans lazily assumed a Republican candidate was bearably "moderate" because all the wise-looking pundits said he was, we got George W. Bush.
January 6th, 2008 davidlevine 2008
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I think selection is usually enough to keep things bearable, nothing like arid inter-gender relations to make even the most stupid of texts bearable were it to originate from someone bearably attractive.
Read this and keep Ms Robinson 2008
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It enabled humans to talk unburdened by survival suits, while the Tran found it bearably tropic; a climate where different races from different temperatures could get together.
The Deluge Drivers Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987
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After this the former cowherd became only bearably bright, and being recognized as the heir to the kingdom went to live with his wife in the Raja palace.
Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas
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Sylvia, thinking the blow might fall more bearably from his brother's hand than from hers, relegated the task of writing him to Austin; and Austin, with a wicked twinkle in his eye, wrote him in this wise:
The Old Gray Homestead Frances Parkinson Keyes 1927
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At La Verna you may sleep for one night -- not well, but bearably; at Camaldoli, very well indeed in summer; and then, wherever you may be, you will find a fine courtesy, for rough though they seem, these peasants and such, are of the Latin race, they understand the amenities.
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922
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