English edit

Etymology edit

molest +‎ -able

Adjective edit

molestable (not comparable)

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

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