sufferable
Example Sentences
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All of this in May, normally a sufferable month in Miami compared with the three or four that follow.
From New York Times • May 21, 2024
“Jefferson said we’re disposed to suffer evils while evils are sufferable, so this is going to take extra effort,” Burns says.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2023
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.