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molestable

molestable adjective: capable of, or suitable for, being molested.

Adjective

molestable (not comparable)

  1. Capable of, or suitable for, being molested.
    • Whereas Clement and Merton immediately place the illegitimate Evelina in the class of molestable not marriageable women...1993, Susan Fraiman, Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development
    • I could understand his touching Nok, but did he view every female as molestable?1994, Cleo Odzer, Patpong sisters: an American woman's view of the Bangkok sex world

Examples of molestable in a sentence

  • […] [A]llow their virtual selves to be metamorphosed by VR technology into those of molestable children.1997, John Weckert, Douglas Adeney, Computer and information ethics:
  • In constantly declaring that children are molestable we are making them into bodies that draw attention to their molestability.2010, Tomas Moniz, Rad Dad, volume 18:

Origin of molestable

From molest + -able.

Questions about molestable

What does molestable mean?
Molestable means capable of, or suitable for, being molested.
How do you use molestable in a sentence?
[…] [A]llow their virtual selves to be metamorphosed by VR technology into those of molestable children.
What part of speech is molestable?
Molestable is an adjective.

Words near molestable in the dictionary

  1. moleskinning
  2. moleskins
  3. Moleskis
  4. molest
  5. molestability
  6. molestable
  7. molestache
  8. molestaches
  9. molestation
  10. molestations
  11. molested

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