speakable
IPA: spˈikʌbʌɫ
adjective
- That can be spoken; utterable, verbalizable.
- Acceptable as a topic of discussion; not subject to taboo.
- (obsolete) Capable of speech.
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Examples of "speakable" in Sentences
- A number of commands, or “speakable items,” are already created for you.
- It's an impeccably theatrical piece of work that is both beautifully speakable and more poetic than Paul Schmidt's now-standard version.
- Comments in art, everything must be fair game, everything must be explorable, everything must be speakable, or we go BACKWARDS! we go DOWN!
- Mr. FRANZEN: Walter is a portrait in the displacement of unspeakable rage about what's going on in his family through speakable rage about what's going on in this country.
- Warren would change the lines, and Rossen felt that he was screwing with his script—he wrote it—although Warren was just doing what most actors do, make the lines speakable.
- "speakable" equivalent - "Death, despair, division of families, all entanglements of mankind grow" - as a different list, with "age" itself elided into a single allusion that takes its modest place in the next rhyming line, "As that old wandering beggar and these God-hated children know".
- Although it may not matter who is sleeping with whom in the celebrity world, several other current events do require the truth, such as the reasons why the government has not taken a more aggressive stance regarding the recent oil spill, or why barely speakable crimes of humanity are allowed to occur in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- But Mr. Ives is a major playwright with an uncanny knack for versification, and it seems more than likely that many regional companies that have heretofore shied away from the formidable demands of "The Misanthrope," even in so easily speakable a rendering as that of Mr. Wilbur, will now decide to take a shot at mounting Mr. Ives's streamlined version.
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