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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a susceptible manner.

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Examples

  • Infosys, a Bangalore, India-based IT services company, has proven its susceptibly to margin pressure from rising employee attrition, faster than expected wage hikes, and from the need to expand its talent pool, according to the research analyst.

    Infosys Proves Susceptible To Margin Pressure 2006

  • At least they do not do so to the same extent as those more nervously and susceptibly constituted.

    Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English Henry Stanton

  • The female mood is susceptibly sympathetic to the fitness or unfitness of dress.

    Other Things Being Equal Emma Wolf 1898

  • But, in the sincere and humble Christian, conscience is tender, easily offended with evil, and gradually approximating that state of susceptibly in respect to sin, in which it resembles a well-polished mirror, that shows the slightest particle of dust or damp upon its surface.

    Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II Francis Augustus Cox 1818

  • Individual susceptibly to concussions varies tremendously, however, so a 100 percent accurate "concussion sensor" for now remains science fiction.

    Livescience.com 2010

  • I have ever been very susceptibly tender as to offences: I am much more tender now, and open throughout.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • I have ever been very susceptibly tender as to offences: I am much more tender now, and open throughout.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 15 Michel de Montaigne 1562

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