Synonyms for actionable

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ak-shuh-nuh-buh l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈæk ʃə nə bəl

Définition of actionable

Origin : 1590s; from action + -able.

adj litigable

Example sentences :

Sir—If it be not actionable, permit me to say that you really are delightful!!
Extract from : « The Gentle Art of Making Enemies » by James McNeill Whistler

Shocking and ungentlemanly terms, and what is worse, actionable.
Extract from : « Bardell v. Pickwick » by Percy Fitzgerald

They can do all of wrong which is profitable, without that part which is actionable.
Extract from : « Twelve Causes of Dishonesty » by Henry Ward Beecher

Such a transaction as that between man and man would be actionable as a fraud.
Extract from : « About Ireland » by E. Lynn Linton

Whatever might be thought of his conduct it was not actionable.
Extract from : « The Divine Fire » by May Sinclair

And to the legal mind what was not actionable was irrelevant.
Extract from : « The Divine Fire » by May Sinclair

But it strikes me that such a statement, relative to Mr. Obadiah Scantlebray, is actionable.
Extract from : « In the Roar of the Sea » by Sabine Baring-Gould

Mere concealment is not actionable unless it amounts not only to suppressio veri, but to suggestio falsi.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" » by Various

There are other London fiends removable by various measures, concerning which much might be said if they were not actionable.
Extract from : « Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101. October 24, 1891 » by Various

Yes; but that sort of trespassing is not actionable nowadays; and besides, I don't know what Mary might have said.'
Extract from : « When a Man's Single » by J. M. Barrie

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