chargeable

adjliable

Word Origin & History

late 15c., "burdensome," from charge (v.) + -able. Sense of "subject to a tax or payment" is from 1610s; that of "liable to be made an expense" is from 1640s; that of "liable to be charged" (with an offense, etc.) is from 1660s.

Example Sentences for chargeable

This was not chargeable against the next volumes to be chronicled.

I blame this in other women, and should wish not to be chargeable with it myself.

But Lever is not chargeable either with caricature or concealment.

Some imagine the Duchess his daughter had been chargeable to him.

If closely enveloped and sealed it is chargeable with letter postage.

This is chargeable to carelessness on the part of the paper-machine tender.

They were, therefore, in a position to be chargeable with the duties to which ch.

They are not chargeable with the technicalities and dry formalism of the "Books of Moses."

No display of a scene like this could be chargeable with redundancy or superfluity.

Postage was, of course, chargeable on the total journey of the letter.

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adj liable

More words related to chargeable

amenable

adjective. able to be judged; responsible

answerable

adjective. responsible

due

adjective. unpaid; owing money

guilty

adjective. blameworthy; found at fault

indebted

adjective. under an obligation

liable

adjective. answerable, responsible