molestable

adj

molestable

adj

Etymology From molest + -able.

1

Capable of, or suitable for, being molested.

  • Whereas Clement and Merton immediately place the illegitimate Evelina in the class of molestable not marriageable women...1993, Susan Fraiman, Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development:
  • I could understand his touching Nok, but did he view every female as molestable?1994, Cleo Odzer, Patpong sisters: an American woman's view of the Bangkok sex world:
2 more examples
  • […] [A]llow their virtual selves to be metamorphosed by VR technology into those of molestable children.1997, John Weckert, Douglas Adeney, Computer and information ethics:
  • In constantly declaring that children are molestable we are making them into bodies that draw attention to their molestability.2010, Tomas Moniz, Rad Dad, volume 18:
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