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Dispensable   /dɪspˈɛnsəbəl/   Listen
Dispensable

adjective
1.
Capable of being dispensed with or done without.



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"Dispensable" Quotes from Famous Books



... unlike all others of my race, if I were not. It is a wise and merciful arrangement of Providence, that every one is to himself the centre of the universe. What a fatal world would this be, if it were otherwise! When one thinks what a collection of insignificances we are, how dispensable the most useful of us is to everybody, how little there is in any of us to make any one care about us, and of how small importance it is to others what becomes of us,—when one thinks that even this round earth ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 • Various

... the other deriving amusement from giving less. He had held that such relations between men and women were inherently dishonest, doomed to end in a clash of desire or to broaden into an honorable love affair. There was no middle course between coveting a woman and neglecting her as entirely dispensable. ...
— The Kingdom Round the Corner - A Novel • Coningsby Dawson



Words linked to "Dispensable" :   unnecessary, indispensable, dispensability, unneeded, dispensableness



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