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US
/əˈvɔɪdəbəɫ/
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[ UK /ɐvˈɔɪdəbəl/ ]
[ UK /ɐvˈɔɪdəbəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- capable of being avoided or warded off
How To Use avoidable In A Sentence
- If a certain amount of begrudgery is the unavoidable product of such a position of eminence, it is neither fair nor perceptive.
- It's unavoidable, understandable, and perfectly forgivable under the circumstances.
- In this domain it serves, to use the unavoidable cliche, merely as a rubber stamp.
- _They_ were compelled to regard exploitage as a cruel but eternally unavoidable condition of the progress of civilisation; for when they lived it was and it always had been a necessity of civilisation, and they could not justly be expected to anticipate such a fundamental revolution in the conditions of human existence as must necessarily precede the passage from exploitage to economic equity. Freeland A Social Anticipation
- The bunk should not be too wide: one rolls so in rough weather; of course it should not be athwartships, if avoidable. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
- This is avoidable and unnecessary suffering. Times, Sunday Times
- THE figures for avoidable deaths look shocking, but is it telling the whole story? The Sun
- The south ridge of Conival has unavoidable scrambling.
- Once upon a time it was a natural and unavoidable element in the relations of every married couple; just as it was natural and unavoidable, once upon a time, that the unwarlike and commercially-minded burghers of a mediæval city should bargain with a neighbouring and predatory baron to keep at bay – for a consideration – other barons no less predatory but a little less neighbouring. Marriage as a Trade
- It is the unavoidable and serious consequence of non-submission which lies at the heart of coercion.