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governable

[ UK /ɡˈʌvənəbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. capable of being controlled

How To Use governable In A Sentence

  • The country has become virtually ungovernable.
  • And, sure enough, there was Kennedy, with rueful face and a maudlin romaunt about a moonlit meeting with a swarm of painted Sioux, over which the stable guard were making merry and stirring the trooper's soul to wrath ungovernable. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier
  • Management of his fissiparous, some would say ungovernable, party will be not the least of his challenges. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the question remains, as a seemingly ungovernable party continues to languish in electoral obscurity and tear itself apart, whether the smack of firm leadership will be enough to save the Scottish Tories.
  • I must ingenuously confess," he says, "that I have a natural touch of enthusiasm, in my complexion, but such as I thank God was ever governable enough, and have found at length perfectly subduable. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
  • Henry was nineteen years old, bull-necked, stocky and freckled, a man of electric energy and ferocious impatience, compelling charm and an ungovernable temper.
  • But the unmistakable impression is that they are now putting short-term partisanship ahead of good policy by trying to make the House ungovernable.
  • The old, round, ungovernable army-surplus chutes - the ones that sent people drifting into trees and breaking both legs - are gone.
  • Too many thoughts, too many emotions, all of them ungovernable. THE THORN BIRDS
  • Education was the means by which elites could pacify the people as a collective, rendering them governable through moral suasion.
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