sackable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.24 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Sufficiently severe to warrant the perpetrator being sacked.
Example Sentences
- "This follows the confirmation that Gilruth personally ordered the cancellation of engineering works in Fife last year, which is thought to have been the final straw for Gibb […]. Because her Fife constituency was materially affected by the cancellation, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross, who raised Gibb's departure at First Minister's Questions on May 18, described the incident as a "clear-cut sackable offence"."
Etymology
Etymology tree English sack Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English sackable From sack + -able.
Inflected Forms
more sackable (comparative)
most sackable (superlative)