Allowable
Praiseworthy; laudable.
Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.
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Allowable Quotations
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
Isaac Barrow
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
Miguel De Cervantes
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
Pierre Corneille
There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground.
William Scranton
Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?
Asa Gray
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are.
William Scranton
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