sackable

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adjective

Sufficiently severe to warrant the perpetrator being sacked.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectivesackable (comparative more sackable, superlative most sackable)

comparative more sackable · superlative most sackable

  1. Sufficiently severe to warrant the perpetrator being sacked.
    1 more example

    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".

    2023 May 31, “Network News: Micro-management prompted Gibb to quit ScotRail”, in RAIL, number 984, page 25

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekσᾰ́κκος (sắkkos)
  2. Latinsaccus
  3. Proto-Germanic*sakkuz
  4. Proto-West Germanic*sakku
  5. Old Englishsacc
  6. Middle Englishsak
  7. Englishsack
  8. Englishsackable

From sack + -able.

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APA

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Chicago

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