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  • adjective Capable of being convicted.

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convict +‎ -able

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Examples

  • Adams, although not convictable of crimes at this point, surely has violated the spirit, if not the letter, of many of the state's laws regarding ethics in government.

    Kroger comes through for Sam the Tram (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • In the past, comparing this to other cases that you have seen, this is very convictable, at the very least, isn't it?

    CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2009 2009

  • We really have to nail this whole "human rights", out-of-touch judiciary, convictable evidence down tight!

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • As we have oddly come to accept the notion in this country that wrongdoing is limited to the commission of convictable crimes and that the failure of accusers to get a conviction is in itself evidence of the moral worthiness of the acquitted, it has become understandably much more important to those who are accused to use every device imaginable to confound the legal outcome.

    Palm Beach Runaround 2008

  • Even if you don't need nannying, the sheer weight of 3000 plus new convictable offences since Blair came to power, the restrictions on everything from travel to commuting and so on and so on lock you in.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • SANCHEZ: Leo, if they can prove that there were two guns in that room at the time that O.J. Simpson is heard on tape saying, don't let anybody out of the room, would you not admit that they have a pretty convictable charge there?

    CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2007 2007

  • Well, now that His Dignified Blandness, The Schief, doubted the, um, wisdom, of secret prisons on teevee in that very bland ghee whizz kind of way of his, I notice the wingjnuts have declared him a convictable traitor who should be send to Gitmo asap man, I kid you not.

    Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Is The Country Catching On? 2006

  • Imagine if the standard of assuming independence falsly were a convictable offence in climate science!

    Potential Academic Misconduct by the Euro Team « Climate Audit 2006

  • Rape charging rates are so extremely low, that they can pretty much only include the most obvious and convictable of cases, where physical evidence of resistance are present, or the rape is between two people where lack of consent is likely to be obvious mostly stranger rape.

    British Poll: Rape and Victim-Blaming 2005

  • The training and the communication in and of itself is convictable.

    CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2005 2005

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