molestable

English

Etymology

From molest +‎ -able.

Adjective

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.

Related terms

• molestability