deal-withable

comparative more deal-withable · superlative most deal-withable · alternative dealwithable · alternative deal-with-able

1. informalAble to be dealt with, handled, or overcome.

   Trust me, my ego is very dealwithable (ugh-ugh-ugh) in person.

   1993 January 29, G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>, “RE:Salmonella Bake 93”, in bit.listserv.words-l (Usenet)

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   That's it, I thought to myself, I can't live this way anymore. This has gone beyond the bounds of the deal-withable.

   2000, Jim Knipfel, Slackjaw, Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 171

   I know that isn't really a help, but it does I suppose make it more -- well, understandable, deal-withable, if one knows that this is the common experience[…]

   2003 October 7, <anon2765@firedrake.org>, “RE:The apostrophe strikes again”, in alt.books.tom-holt (Usenet)

   Sometimes I get tired of being the guy who is supposed to deal with un-deal-withable situations.

   2007 February 6, Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty, Penguin, →ISBN, page 18