All 3 Uses
liable
in
Animal Farm
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- It was noticed that they were especially liable to break into 'Four legs good, two legs bad' at crucial moments in Snowball's speeches.†
p. 48.1 *
- Certainly the animals did not want Jones back; if the holding of debates on Sunday mornings was liable to bring him back, then the debates must stop.†
p. 56.2
- It had been felt that the existence of a farm owned and operated by pigs was somehow abnormal and was liable to have an unsettling effect in the neighborhood.†
p. 137.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(liable as in: is legally liable) legally responsible
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(2)
(liable as in: she is liable to) likely to; or maybe going to; or subject to
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)