Castigable

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Able or worthy to be punished.

    "They are at least logical that say to castigate folly you must first exhibit folly as a castigable thing, and in showing folly you thus cause more folly."

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punishable

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"They are at least logical that say to castigate folly you must first exhibit folly as a castigable thing, and in showing folly you thus cause more folly."

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