Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing grief; lamentable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Lamentable.
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- adjective obsolete
lamentable
Etymologies
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Examples
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Holz-Bergmann was allowed to raise only those issues considered "grievable" under her union contract.
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Thus, for Butler, power understood as subjection is implicated in the process of determining which bodies come to matter, whose lives are livable and whose deaths grievable.
Feminist Perspectives on Power Allen, Amy 2005
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What is often ignored are the structural and institutional foundations of the predicaments of persistently devalued, oppressed, and darker-hued minorities, whose lifechances are recvocable - and not grievable - at any time.
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What is often ignored are the structural and institutional foundations of the predicaments of persistently devalued, oppressed, and darker-hued minorities, whose lifechances are recvocable - and not grievable - at any time.
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What is often ignored are the structural and institutional foundations of the predicaments of persistently devalued, oppressed, and darker-hued minorities, whose lifechances are recvocable - and not grievable - at any time.
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What is often ignored are the structural and institutional foundations of the predicaments of persistently devalued, oppressed, and darker-hued minorities, whose lifechances are recvocable - and not grievable - at any time.
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The superficial application would be that trespass on private property is a grievable offense, and using somebody else's private access is trespass.
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Nothing mentioned in the post, below, is grievable to the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board.
unknown title 2009
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Failure to comply with those deadlines is grievable, and may ultimately result in forced payouts.
Inside Higher Ed 2009
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The superficial application would be that trespass on private property is a grievable offense, and using somebody else's private access is trespass.
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