Crossword-Solution: ALLOWABLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Allowable | a. | Praiseworthy; laudable. |
| Allowable | a. | Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends. |
We have 44 clues for the answer “ALLOWABLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Not improper. | 1 answer |
| Not banned | 2 answers |
| Pardonable | 6 answers |
| according to Hoyle | 16 answers |
| judiciary | 18 answers |
| Kosher | 18 answers |
| bearable | 18 answers |
| Permitted | 33 answers |
| o k | 35 answers |
| Justifiable | 36 answers |
| Lawful | 39 answers |
| licit | 42 answers |
| admissible | 49 answers |
| Permissible | 52 answers |
| Legitimate | 52 answers |
| O.K. | 56 answers |
| suited | 57 answers |
| adapted | 58 answers |
| logical | 59 answers |
| Befitting | 60 answers |
| Adequate | 60 answers |
| matched | 60 answers |
| Legal | 60 answers |
| Defensible | 62 answers |
| Personal | 62 answers |
| Convenient | 63 answers |
| Becoming | 63 answers |
| ABOVEBOARD | 64 answers |
| specific | 65 answers |
| Accept-able | 66 answers |
| Qualified | 68 answers |
| Accurate | 68 answers |
| Precise | 73 answers |
| Formal | 73 answers |
| Apt | 74 answers |
| strict | 75 answers |
| Meet | 75 answers |
| Special | 79 answers |
| Proper | 80 answers |
| Individual | 84 answers |
| Exact | 92 answers |
| Fit | 100 answers |
| Just | 103 answers |
| Correct | 108 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ALLOWABLE (5)
Into this festal season of the year—as it already was, and continued to be during the greater part of two centuries—the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction.
Every shade of light and dark, of truth, and of fiction which is the veil of truth, is allowable in a work of philosophical imagination.
The attachment, from which against honour, against feeling, against every better interest he had outwardly torn himself, now, when no longer allowable, governed every thought; and the connection, for the sake of which he had, with little scruple, left her sister to misery, was likely to prove a source of unhappiness to himself of a far more incurable nature.
See Admit.] Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible.
One lesson, too, we have learned, if it be allowable to argue _a particulari_: that the brute beasts which are to the Count’s command are yet themselves not amenable to his spiritual power; for look, these rats that would come to his call, just as from his castle top he summon the wolves to your going and to that poor mother’s cry, though they come to him, they run pell-mell from the so little dogs of my friend Arthur.
Quotes with ALLOWABLE (3)
... the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction.
Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do (...) Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is th…
Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like buried chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of thought.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1954–2015).