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Meanings of refutable in English

Able to be refuted.

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        Examples for "questionable"
        1
        This value judgment is questionable in many important circumstances in public health.
        Pubmed
        2
        Yet again, sorry about the questionable phrasing there, given the subject matter.
        The Guardian
        3
        However, the use of bevacizumab in the general older population is questionable.
        Pubmed
        4
        There's some good work in there and there's some work that's questionable.
        The Guardian
        5
        I believe also it was taken for questionable reasons, writes John Waters.
        The Irish Times
        1
        The greatest part of his writings is not confutable: it is historical and critical.'
        The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
        Usage of refutable in English
        1
        Why burn writing they could so triumphantly refute, if they were refutable?
        The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testam...
        2
        Indeed, M. Bergson might seem to be easily refutable out of his own mouth.
        A Pluralistic Universe / Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College ...
        3
        This hypothesis, which must be refutable, is used to make a prediction about the phenomenon, which is then tested by experiment.
        The Irish Times
        4
        It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds.
        Beyond Good and Evil
        Frequent collocations
        Refutable through the time