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Liable   /lˈaɪəbəl/   Listen
Liable

adjective
1.
At risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant.  Synonym: apt.  "She is liable to forget"
2.
Subject to legal action.
3.
(often followed by 'to') likely to be affected with.  Synonyms: nonimmune, nonresistant, unresistant.
4.
Held legally responsible.





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"Liable" Quotes from Famous Books



... partitions, allowing it to sink into the slight depth of molten matter. In this way, or perhaps by employing a solution of rubber instead of the sealing wax, the chambers will be well isolated and not liable to leak. The water is then introduced through the center openings of the disks before hermetically sealing the drum ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 • Various
... raise the status of the workmen is ill-directed towards raising or sustaining the rate of wages, else towards dictating concerning the management. This effort is ill-directed, first, because it is liable to aim at an impossibility—i.e. to extort from a master a wage so high that he prefers not to light his engine fires; next, because to raise the rate of wages does not secure continuous work, and ...
— Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman • Giberne Sieveking
... rebellion, and who now surrender, will, if they return to their Colonies, be determined by the Colonial Governments, and in accordance with the laws of the Colonies, and that any British subjects who have joined the enemy will be liable to trial under the law of that part of the British Empire to ...
— In the Shadow of Death • P. H. Kritzinger and R. D. McDonald
... majesty. Allow me to add, that the reputation of a woman seldom dies from a single blow—it expires gradually from repeated pricks of the needle. And queens are as liable to such mortality ...
— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach
... acknowledge that the educated man who breaks the laws is justly liable to a heavier punishment than he who has been born in ignorance, and bred, as it were, in the lap of sin; but we hardly realize how much greater is the punishment which, when he be punished, the educated man is forced to undergo. ...
— The Three Clerks • Anthony Trollope


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