sufferable

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There's actually a provision in the Declaration of Independence that a people will suffer abuses while they remain sufferable, tolerable while they remain tolerable.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2023

At 160 minutes and on a second encounter, “Bardo” is — how to put this? — sufferable.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2022

Religion helps make suffering sufferable, but so does science.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2018

The parents argued about which city’s weather was less sufferable, D.C.’s or Haifa’s.

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2016

Least sufferable, a fugitive slave law was passed, so Draconian that that of 1793, hitherto in force, was benign in comparison.

From History of the United States, Volume 3 by Andrews, Elisha Benjamin