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answerable

adjective as in responsible

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As Lepore wrote, “the origins of no other nation are… as answerable to evidence,” as the United States.

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While the Károlyis are answerable for what they did, this convenient tale is not the whole story.

Those people will be answerable obviously to the voters at some point.

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He says he doesn’t miss the complexity of being answerable to both city and state governments, and he loves working with a “very enlightened” mayor in Khan.

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The nature of the autocracy—that it was only answerable to itself—meant it could not draw its power from the people.

The unit was, according to Hughes, answerable to Adams, the Belfast commander.

And yet for an agency that supposedly is answerable to no one, its people sure do testify a lot before Congress.

Choice B: New bankers appointed by and answerable to the president.

This time I am convinced that the second reason is almost wholly answerable for your latest commission.

Ford is answerable for many of the fixed ideas about Spain which it seems quite impossible to remove.

They hold themselves at all times answerable to the law of the land, for their conduct in the trust committed to them.

He chooses to return to his original state, and now stands answerable himself, when the time shall come for his trial.

And in such case should not I be answerable for any mischief which might ensue?

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to answerable, such as: accountable, amenable, liable, obligated, obliged, and bound.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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