Peltable
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Peltable is an adjective meaning Deserving of being pelted.
Meaning
Deserving of being pelted.
More Meanings
- Able to be thrown or hurled.
Example Sentences
Sketching is always a peltable or mobable offence, as being contrary to the Koran, and sitting down tempts the pelter.
[…] the crowd throngs there, eager to substitute cat-calls and taunts for applause, and for roses and violets they exchange cabbages and other harsh and peltable vegetables […]
What I mean is that there are structures in all this tumult, as there are in all human dealings. Certain classes of celebrity count as peltable; the international rich are not, and they, as I have so frequently said in these pages, are the worst menace […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include contemptible, pitiable, rebukable, derisive, pily, scornworthy.
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