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perfectible

ADJECTIVE
  1. capable of becoming or being made perfect

How To Use perfectible In A Sentence

  • The Western Romantics believed that their societies were perfectible and could be salvaged from within.
  • That said, it is important in a way that many other screeds only wish to be, and, in an easily perfectible world, would serve as a rallying cry for tax reform.
  • The human body is no longer a given but provisional, perfectible, plastic; a work in progress. Times, Sunday Times
  • We are encouraged to think of relationships as perfectible and, when they prove not to be, disposable.
  • The anonymous narrator's struggle with the intractable but potentially perfectible medium of language is what constitutes the real story. The Times Literary Supplement
  • As their emphasis is on this world, they cling to the belief that man is morally perfectible and that Utopia on earth is achievable.
  • The old idea that we could study past mistakes so as not to repeat them implied a perfectible society in a state of continual improvement.
  • Man is an imperfectible animal, and because he is, we can't eliminate hate-we can't eliminate brutality-we can't eliminate unreason. Canadian and American Relations
  • The human body is no longer a given but provisional, perfectible, plastic; a work in progress. Times, Sunday Times
  • For the purpose of my argument Rousseau was a romantic idealist who believed in individualism and and that the human condition was perfectible, and he was, in fact, these things. Matthew Yglesias » The Collapse of Latvia
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