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US
/ɛksˈpɫɪkəbəɫ/
]
[ UK /ɛksplˈɪkəbəl/ ]
[ UK /ɛksplˈɪkəbəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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capable of being explicated or accounted for
explicable behavior
How To Use explicable In A Sentence
- How we had found each other in this throng of 250,000 people was inexplicable. Times, Sunday Times
- The sudden increase in sales is easily explicable.
- Rachel Maddow mocked a Democratic senator on her Thursday show for what she called his "inexplicable" opposition to President Obama's jobs bill. Rachel Maddow Mocks Sen. Bob Casey's Opposition To Obama Jobs Plan (VIDEO)
- And that in itself becomes the great terrible mystery of the film - the monstrous enigma that propels the townspeople towards some inexplicable, and therefore, inextricable, oblivion.
- Robert Mueller, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, released a letter he had written to Mr. MacAskill in which he called the Scots minister's decision "inexplicable as it is detrimental to the cause of justice. Lockerbie Fallout Spreads to London
- Expecting cooperation when such can lead to self incrimination on a whim is just as inexplicable. The Volokh Conspiracy » Juveniles on Probation, and Their Parents’ Guns (and Other Weapons)
- Why contribute to collections of essays that try to explain the inexplicable?
- It's been suggested that this otherwise inexplicable aspect of chimp life is a little bit like a religious service. Times, Sunday Times
- For some inexplicable reason, he's decided to cancel the project.
- His jaw fell; there was a remarkable exiguity about the coat which was inexplicable. Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners)