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answerability

/an-ser-uh-buhl, ahn-/US // ˈæn sər ə bəl, ˈɑn- //UK // (ˈɑːnsərəbəl) //

答复性,答复能力,答复率,答辩权

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : liable to be asked to give account; responsible: He is answerable to a committee for all his decisions.
    • : capable of being answered: a question answerable by mail.
    • : proportionate; correlative.
    • : corresponding; suitable: The amount is not answerable to my needs.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inresponsibility
as inguilt
Synonyms
culpability罪责,应负的责任,责任,责任感disgrace耻辱,羞辱,侮蔑,耻辱感indiscretion失言,失言失语,失态,失言失态liability负债,责任,债务,义务regret遗憾,遗憾的是,忏悔,很遗憾remorse悔恨,忏悔,悔意,懊悔responsibility责任,职责,责任感,责任心shame耻辱,羞愧,羞辱,羞愧难当sin罪,罪恶,罪过,罪孽stigma耻辱,污名,耻辱感,羞辱blameworthiness咎由自取,有责任的人,责任感,有责任感contrition忏悔,悔恨,悔过,悔改crime犯罪,罪行,犯罪行为,罪案criminality犯罪行为,犯罪,犯罪活动,犯罪率delinquency拖欠行为,拖欠,拖欠费,拖欠债款dereliction失职,失职行为,渎职,失职渎职dishonor辱骂,不名誉,侮辱,不光彩的事error错误,误差,错,差错failing失败,失败的,失效,失误fault错,故障,错误,缺点infamy臭名昭著,恶名昭彰,声名狼藉,恶名iniquity不义之财,邪恶,邪恶之处,恶行lapse失误,失效,误时,过失malfeasance渎职行为,渎职,渎职罪,失职malpractice渎职行为,渎职,舞弊行为,弊端misbehavior行为不端,不良行为,不当行为,行为不当misconduct不当行为,行为不端,失当行为,不良行为misstep走错路,走错一步,走错了一步,走错路了offense进攻,攻击性,冒犯,罪行onus责任,职责,负担,义务penitence忏悔,告解,悔过self-condemnation自我谴责,自责,自我指责,谴责自己self-reproach自责,自怨自艾,自悔,自重sinfulness罪孽,罪恶性,罪过,罪性slip滑落,滑倒,滑移,溜solecism独裁主义,独断专行,鳎目鱼,独裁症transgression违反行为,违反规定的行为,违反,违反规定wickedness邪恶,恶人,邪恶的人,邪恶的wrong错误的,错,错的,错了malefaction恶意行为,恶作剧,渎职行为,弊端peccability易损性,可怕性,可疑性,易损件
Antonyms

Examples

  • While the Károlyis are answerable for what they did, this convenient tale is not the whole story.

  • Those people will be answerable obviously to the voters at some point.

  • He says he doesn’t miss the complexity of being answerable to both city and state governments, and he loves working with a “very enlightened” mayor in Khan.

  • The nature of the autocracy—that it was only answerable to itself—meant it could not draw its power from the people.

  • The unit was, according to Hughes, answerable to Adams, the Belfast commander.

  • And yet for an agency that supposedly is answerable to no one, its people sure do testify a lot before Congress.

  • Choice B: New bankers appointed by and answerable to the president.

  • This time I am convinced that the second reason is almost wholly answerable for your latest commission.

  • Ford is answerable for many of the fixed ideas about Spain which it seems quite impossible to remove.

  • They hold themselves at all times answerable to the law of the land, for their conduct in the trust committed to them.

  • He chooses to return to his original state, and now stands answerable himself, when the time shall come for his trial.

  • And in such case should not I be answerable for any mischief which might ensue?