Similar words: indefensible, defensive, defensively, defensiveness, sensible, ostensible, extensible, insensible. Meaning: [dɪ'fensəbl] 
adj. capable of being defended.
adj. capable of being defended. 
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1 Her reasons for acting are morally defensible.
2 A city built on an island is easily defensible.
3 High petrol taxes are defensible on ecological grounds.
4 Cooper believes the plan is fair and legally defensible.
5 If you think it defensible, go on.
6 Although the charge of first-degree murder was properly defensible,[www.Sentencedict.com] I felt uneasy about representing Leyland.
7 Defensible conclusions in analyses of politics often require extensive data, thorough analysis, and consideration of several alternative explanations.
8 The highest defensible estimates are several times higher in energy, perhaps magnitude 9. 3 to 9. 5.
9 No one is more disciplined in adopting a defensible position.
10 Or was it a complex mixture of defensible goals and disastrous execution?
11 I chose a defensible patch of territory for them and helped the maid with cushions, lemonade bottles and the sunshade.
12 Is regulation really defensible, or should the practice be left unfettered from regulatory controls?
13 The Democrats have a perfectly defensible case to make, without continuing the fear-mongering.
14 Is abortion morally defensible?
15 There is no defensible basis for a global answer to this question.
16 The least defensible motive is vanity.
17 Later the Treasury retreated a more defensible position.
18 Defensible farmstead in country 5 li west of Papa.
19 But Berlin was no longer defensible.
20 Economic activities were seen as the only defensible form of American involvement abroad.
21 What are effective and scientifically defensible indicators of coupled systems management?
22 Mr. Hague I welcome the moves made so far by my right hon. Friend to encourage manufacturers to make cars more defensible.
23 Unfortunately for the advertisers, the first battle has been over the least defensible product.
24 Even 50 different speed limits, bank holidays, fireworks laws are defensible.
25 Even if shot to pieces the commanding position of the banqueting hall would still make it defensible.
26 To be meaningful, the investigation should be thorough, timely, unbiased well - documented, and scientifically defensible.
27 After all, as far as its logic goes, his position is perfectly defensible.
28 China's ongoing determination to fix the yuan is the least defensible and most distortive.
29 That is not the right thing to do and it is not defensible.
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