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molestable en · ADJ

Etymology

From molest + -able.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Capable of, or suitable for, being molested.
    • 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:
    • 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:
    • […] [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:
    • 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:

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