What does indictable mean?
Indictable means Subjecting one to an indictment. (of an act).
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/ɪnˈdaɪtəbəl/ · adjective
Subjecting one to an indictment. (of an act).
Do not then charge men as too strict or precise, when they endeavour to abstain from idle thoughts and idle words, that they dare not give themselves that licence which others take, for these are indictable as well as great sins;
Stoppage of streets, by coaches standing at places of entertainment, &c. &c. are public nusances, and indictable.
In fact, ‘insult’ is hardly the word for what even I have heard you say; let me warn you, madam, that you have sailed pretty close to the wind already in the way of indictable slander.
The Sherlock Holmes stories […] are not all murders, and some of them do not even deal with an indictable crime.
1973, Raoul Berger, Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems, Harvard University Press, Appendix B, p. 307, In order to sustain his argument in the impeachment of Justice Samuel Chase, Luther Martin, his leading counsel, maintained that judges were indictable for violation of their official duties.
[…] for Lords, Judges, and Justices of all sorts may, and too often do transgress the laws, as other men, and so of equals or Superiours, become subject to the justice of their associats in Commission […] being transfigured from Superiour Judges of the Law, to Inferiour Trespassers against it, Indictable by their Peers,
Use indictable when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Indictable means Subjecting one to an indictment. (of an act).
Common synonyms include chargeable, guilty.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Do not then charge men as too strict or precise, when they endeavour to abstain from idle thoughts and idle words, that they dare not give themselves that licence which others take, for these are indictable as well as great sins;
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