liable
/ˈlaɪ̯əbəl/ adjective C1- Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable. · The surety is liable for the debt of his principal.
- Subject; susceptible; prone. · This crime is liable to imprisonment for life.· A man liable to heart disease.
- Exposed to a certain contingency or causality, more or less probable. · Electronic devices are liable to malfunction when exposed to extreme heat.
- Likely. · Someone is liable to slip on your icy sidewalk.
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But you can’t expect me to visit here again in a hurry, if I’m liable to be flown at and insulted in such a fashion.
“I am liable to these sudden nervous attacks.”
If, therefore, she actually persists in rejecting my suit, perhaps it were better not to force her into accepting me, because, if liable to such defects of temper, she could not contribute much to my felicity.”
My conduct may, I fear, be objectionable in having accepted my dismission from your daughter’s lips instead of your own; but we are all liable to error.
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