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View synonyms for impeachable

impeachable

[ im-pee-chuh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. making one subject to impeachment, as misconduct in office.
  2. liable to be impeached.


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Other Words From

  • im·peacha·bili·ty noun
  • nonim·peacha·bili·ty noun
  • nonim·peacha·ble adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of impeachable1

First recorded in 1495–1505; impeach + -able

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Example Sentences

The impeachable crime is admitted but the guilt runs too deep to die so easily.

A broad bipartisan House Judiciary Committee majority found his sins to rise to the level of impeachable offenses.

If he did, the Republicans might have a truly impeachable offense.

Everybody lives in a land of make believe where Benghazi and Fast and Furious are somehow impeachable offenses.

Sending a young woman a lewd photo is not an impeachable offense, but it is monumentally bad judgment.

The President of the United States is impeachable at any time during his continuance in office.

Treason and bribery, specifically named in the Constitution as impeachable offenses, were also indictable.

The managers of the impeachment were far from consistent in their conception of the nature of impeachable offenses.

And in Delaware and Virginia he is not impeachable till out of office.

Let him doubt, if he can, of the impeachable nature of the offence which was charged upon the President.

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