All 4 Uses of
indispensable
in
David Copperfield
- They think it indispensable that he should be upon the spot.'†
Chpt 10-12 *
- Next Mrs. Crupp said it was clear she couldn't be in two places at once (which I felt to be reasonable), and that 'a young gal' stationed in the pantry with a bedroom candle, there never to desist from washing plates, would be indispensable.†
Chpt 22-24
- 'Uriah,' she replied, after a moment's hesitation, 'has made himself indispensable to papa.†
Chpt 25-27
- A dream of their coming in with Dora; of the pew-opener arranging us, like a drill-sergeant, before the altar rails; of my wondering, even then, why pew-openers must always be the most disagreeable females procurable, and whether there is any religious dread of a disastrous infection of good-humour which renders it indispensable to set those vessels of vinegar upon the road to Heaven.†
Chpt 43-45
Definition:
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(indispensable) absolutely necessary