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passable

/ˈpæsəbəl/ adjective C2
  1. That may be passed or traversed.
  2. Tolerable; adequate; no more than satisfactory.
  3. able to "pass", or be accepted as a member of a race, sex or other group to which society would not otherwise regard one as belonging.
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“The food is the same as in other prisons,—that is, very bad; the lodging is very unhealthful, but, on the whole, passable for a dungeon; but it is not that which I wish to speak of, but a secret I have to reveal of the greatest importance.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 135 · C1

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