sufferable
Example Sentences
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“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
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
Memory throws such a softened light on the picture, that even bores become sufferable, and we extract a passing laugh from the most tiresome of our quondam "afflictives."
From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
