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murderable, a.|ˈmɜːdərəb(ə)l|
[f. murder v. + -able.]
Giving cause for murder, provoking or inviting murder.
1920D. H. Lawrence Women in Love ii. 32 A murderee is a man who is murderable. And a man who is murderable is a man who in a profound, if hidden lust, desires to be murdered. 1927Sunday Express 21 Aug. 10/4 This tendency to associate unpopular opinions with murderable offences seems to be an increasing one on both sides of the Atlantic. 1966New Statesman 18 Mar. 377/1 They had made good, and they were good; pre-eminently, they had achieved ‘security’. And hence the immediate public terror caused by their murder: the least murderable people in the world, if they could be murdered, then anyone could be murdered. |