manipulable
adj/məˈnɪpjʊləbəl/
Etymology 1859, from manipulate + -able.
1
Suitable for, or able to be subjected to, manipulation.
- He wondered if this was how men like Jardine and Matheson saw the world – minuscule, manipulable. If people and places moved around the lines they drew. If cities shattered when they stomped.2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 457:
- I think we have a responsibility to emphasize to our students that law is something less: a system, manipulable like any other, for achieving political and policy ends.2024, G. S. Hans, Law Professors Can’t Keep Carrying Water For the Supreme Court, in: Balls and Strikes, August 5 2024
- Derived terms
- manipulably, micromanipulable, nonmanipulable, unmanipulable