Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
correctable .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being corrected.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative form of
correctable .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word correctible.
Examples
-
You see, I've been reading Kevin Starr's, Material Dreams - Southern California Through the 1920s, and much of it brings up for me our correctible failure when it comes to mass transit in America's most car-addicted region.
Joel Epstein: Mass Transit and a Public Works Pilgrimage to Hoover Dam 2010
-
We are currently teaching a class on anger using the works of Seneca, the Stoic philosopher who proposed that anger results not from an uncontrollable eruption of the passions but from a basic and correctible error of reasoning.
Can Tolstoy Save Your Marriage? Alain de Botton 2010
-
“Mrs. Johnson, do you think the first story that Woodward and Bernstein wrote implicating H. R. Haldeman was correctible?”
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
-
Specifically, it fails to insure that the editing and alterations it makes to usually well-written science releases did not alter the sense or facts of the story, a flaw easily correctible if the Futurity version was vetted by the original author, whose work is usually vetted initially by the researchers who achieved the discovery.
Futurity and ‘almost-journalism’ » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009
-
“Mrs. Johnson, do you think the first story that Woodward and Bernstein wrote implicating H. R. Haldeman was correctible?”
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
-
“Mrs. Johnson, do you think the first story that Woodward and Bernstein wrote implicating H. R. Haldeman was correctible?”
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
-
These are correctible and it will tell all of us a lot about Obama if they are fixed.
What Experience? Obama To Aggressively Engage Hillary's Claim To Foreign Policy Readiness 2009
-
“Mrs. Johnson, do you think the first story that Woodward and Bernstein wrote implicating H. R. Haldeman was correctible?”
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
-
Speaking for myself only I would rather have a leaflet pulled up, rather than pulled, for a small and correctible mistake than have a Rape Scenario Video, approved by the Trafford Centre on the basis of its outline at least, pulled because it used a Rape fiction to promote a charge fiction.
-
However, I will attribute that to your ignorance, which is correctible, as opposed to you being as dumb as a snail, which, alas, would not be.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.