Oppugnable

//əˈpjuːnəbəl//

Synonyms for "oppugnable"

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Czech

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  • napadnutelný adj (disputable, contestable)
  • sporný adj (disputable, contestable)

Italian

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  • oppugnabile adj (disputable, contestable)

Sample sentences

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Judicious Reader, THOU may'st (peradventure) no less wonder at the strangeness of the Paradox, than at the publication hereof in an English Dialect, and the rather because it is no vulgar Theme …: Yet, by the way, let me advise thee to suspend thy censures, (which at first view, 'tis probable, thou may'st be subject to entertain,) as supposing the Doctrine herein asserted more easily oppugnable than indeed it is) till thou hast passed a serious examination on all the particulars herein insisted upon: For Aliquando mens cogitat quæ ratio non probat.

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The Prince of Orators directs all Polemics to exert their Fire and Force on those Points of their Cause which are most solid and plausible, and to glide gently over, or altogether omit those which are weakest and most oppugnable.

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With more than Quixotic courage and boisterous energy, he not only arrays himself against every belief or institution which wears the aspect of stability or general acceptance, but he continually mistakes the phantasies of his own imagination for actual oppugnable realities.

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Consult, on the other hand, the advocates for cold bathing, Floyer and Baynard, for instance, should implicit credit be given to their panegyricks, there are few diseases which are not oppugnable by immersion in cold water.

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