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rope-worthy

rope-worthy adjective: deserving of being hanged.

Adjective

rope-worthy (comparative more rope-worthy, superlative most rope-worthy)

  1. (obsolete) Deserving of being hanged.
    • To pass over and pretermit the danger of representing the actionds of the others, and mainly of lawyers and churchmen […] canst thou believe it innocent to counterfeit kings and queens? Supposest thou that if the impression of their faces on a farthing be felonious and rope-worthy, the imitation of...1834, Walter Savage Landor, Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, pages 275–276; republished in The Works of Walter Savage Landor, volume 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1846
    Synonyms:
    rope-ripe

Synonyms of rope-worthy

Forms of rope-worthy

comparativemore rope-worthy
superlativemost rope-worthy

Origin of rope-worthy

From rope + -worthy.

Questions about rope-worthy

What does rope-worthy mean?
Rope-worthy means deserving of being hanged.
What part of speech is rope-worthy?
Rope-worthy is an adjective.

Words near rope-worthy in the dictionary

  1. rope-ripe
  2. rope-walk
  3. rope-walks
  4. rope-way
  5. rope-ways
  6. rope-worthy
  7. ropeable
  8. ropeband
  9. ropebands
  10. ropebark
  11. ropebridge

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