Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being assailed, attacked, or invaded.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being assailed.
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- adjective Not
defended or not able to be defended.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not defended or capable of being defended
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Examples
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Scientific reasoning is assailable, that is what peer review is for and is exactly how and why the amazing errors in the IPCC report were found out and shot down.
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The U.S. has the most sophisticated military hardware in the world and is able to project air support from aircraft carriers and bases in Japan, neither of which are easily assailable.
Daniel Wagner: Scenarios for Conflict Between the Koreas Daniel Wagner 2011
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First of all, the otherwise-unassailable movie (Orson Welles, Leonard Nimoy, Judd Nelson and Robert Stack — what could possibly go wrong?) introduced a thoroughly assailable character in Wheelie, a pre-pubescent robot man-child who talks in rhymes and turns into a bubbly alien car.
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All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.
Cracktastic: Wanted’s Timur Bekmambetov Directing Moby Dick | /Film 2008
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All that maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy me, are visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Barack Obama.
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This coverage really is beyond ridiculous but I have such an assailable desire to check in on the conventional wisdom (plus Maddow is so incredibly awesome).
Bill Bonds Himself Emotionally To Obama On Readiness, Hope 2009
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That Carol Shea-Porter's statement to the mis-guided (and craven) loud-mouth is appropriate; and, that it is un-assailable as an 'ad hominem' attack is clear to anyone.
Quote Of The Day 2009
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Obama, as we are all well aware, has received his share of poor treatment as well, but clearly he has been less personally assailable than Hillary and so the tone and tenor of the negative garbage they've produced on him was different than the crap they threw at her.
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GO: Just as driving while intoxicated poses a moral and legal dilemma, regardless of whether or not you crash into someone, the act of driving drunk is unacceptable and justifiably assailable behavior.
An Interview with George Orwell & Paddy Chayefsky: Part 2 of 2 - Jaffer Ali - MediaBizBloggers 2009
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GO: Just as driving while intoxicated poses a moral and legal dilemma, regardless of whether or not you crash into someone, the act of driving drunk is unacceptable and justifiably assailable behavior.
An Interview with George Orwell & Paddy Chayefsky: Part 2 of 2 - Jaffer Ali - MediaBizBloggers 2009
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