Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Liable or making liable to be impeached; chargeable with wrong-doing; censurable; liable to be called in question.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That may be impeached; liable to impeachment; chargeable with a crime.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
impeached (of a person). - adjective That warrants
impeachment (of an offence).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Those decisions constitute part of the common law of impeachment, and they stand for the principle that abuse of the Presidential Office is at the core of the notion of impeachable offense.
Submission By Counsel For President Clinton To The Committee ITY National Archives 1998
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After claiming that the commotion caused by an alleged pre-primary White House job offer to Joe Sestak was tantamount to an "impeachable" offense, Issa later said he wouldn't mount a probe into the matter.
Darrell Issa Continues Apology Tour, Regrets Calling Obama 'Corrupt' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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After claiming that the commotion caused by an alleged pre-primary White House job offer to Joe Sestak was tantamount to an "impeachable" offense, Issa later said he wouldn't mount a probe into the matter.
Darrell Issa Continues Apology Tour, Regrets Calling Obama 'Corrupt' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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D of Pennsylvania said earlier this year that the White House had offered him a job to get him not to run for the Senate, Issa suggested that was an "impeachable" offense.
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In late July 2009, LaRouche declared that the President was "impeachable" for his Nazi health-care "reform."
LaRouche's Latest 2010
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"impeachable" offenses in the president elect's lame but still an attempt at humor.
AroundTheCapitol.com 2008
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Under Texas law, any monument on the capitol grounds must be approved by the state legislature; erecting a monument without legislative approval is a criminal offense punishable by imprisonment and an impeachable offense if done by a government official.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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Pelosi was being derelict in her duty as Speaker of the House according to the Constitution and we all know the impeachable unindicted war crimes George W. Bush and his neonconservatives were committing.
Charles Karel Bouley: Democrats and Weiner: One Unfortunate, One Unforgivable Charles Karel Bouley 2011
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I'll never forget seeing her on a TV talk show asking the audience if "they knew of any impeachable offenses."
Charles Karel Bouley: Democrats and Weiner: One Unfortunate, One Unforgivable Charles Karel Bouley 2011
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Lying to Congress is an impeachable offense so why did the Republicans not act ethically and impeach Bush and Cheney when they learned they had been lied to, that these criminals had lied to the UN and had lied to the American people???
House Democrats: Panetta testified that CIA misled Congress 2009
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