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suspectable, a.|səˈspɛktəb(ə)l| Also 8 erron. -ible. [f. prec. + -able.] That may or should be suspected; open to suspicion.
1748Richardson Clarissa V. lviii. 363 Evermore is parade and obsequiousness suspectable. a1761Ibid. (1768) III. lxii. 318 As poverty is generally suspectible, the Widow must be got handsomely aforehand. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) V. 730 Infirm and suspectable evidence. 1859W. Anderson Disc. Ser. ii. (1860) 198 You..might show yourself..of suspectable profession, if you were complaisant. 1887Yorksh. Post 23 Feb. 5/7 It is only in this direction that Europe is suspectable. |