explicable behavior. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Something more in the line of the explicable was a phenomenon observed in 1879 and in 1881 by Schiaparelli. From Wordnik.com. [Mars] Reference
Nor was this some in - explicable oversight. From Wordnik.com. [william hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
"Officials from the wildlife department say there is no 'explicable' reason for the falling number of tigers.". From Wordnik.com. [TreeHugger] Reference
Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe ..... blog. taragana.com "Officials from the wildlife department say there is no 'explicable' reason for the falling number of tigers.". From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Film documents survival stories of tigers, other animals] Reference
Helfgott's middlebrow appeal is all too explicable. From Wordnik.com. [The Piano Man] Reference
Not altogether explicable is this extreme self-abnegation. From Wordnik.com. [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference
And this is easily explicable if only it is borne in mind that the. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowley Poems] Reference
The presence of the photograph was explicable by several surmises: zu. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
Is it not probable that there will be many things not explicable by us?. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Meacham joked, "You know, General, you've just become more explicable.". From Wordnik.com. [His Dark Journey] Reference
The affair was easily explicable in the light of what Plutina had to tell. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Chalbes and Epaphus (for the grandfather of Busiris) are all explicable as. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
MOZART, in short, was an explicable miracle, while Tiny Titus is an insoluble Sphinx. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914] Reference
Not a door nor a window, nor any explicable purpose for this sort of closed vestibule. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference
By definition a miracle is an event not explicable in terms of ordinary human experience. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
The news was unwelcome, baffling, frightening; nothing about it was expected or explicable. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth of Jesus] Reference
Magnetism, spiritualism, and clairvoyance have all their mystical, as well as their explicable, side. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of a Turkish Bath] Reference
His condition is psychologically explicable, but to a rational being, in so far as rational, it is not normal. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
I do not say that the smile makes the dismissal explicable; rather I a little wonder how she could have sent him away. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
All over the world agricultural peoples practise elaborate ceremonies explicable, as Mannhardt has shown, on animistic principles. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference
The ways of it and everything in it were regular and orderly, predictable, explicable not eccentric, erratic, baffling and inscrutable. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
Every image is explicable to the youngest hearer, while none suggests actual familiarity, because the actors are not children, but pigs. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
This interest is peculiarly subject to fluctuations; some of which in the past have been less explicable than the one it is now undergoing. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
The one explicable, the other inexplicable; the one from the hand of patient skill -- of talent; the other a result of force mysterious, divine. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Discovery] Reference
As regards Mr. Mordey's observation, he thought the action explicable on the theory of the leading condenser current acting on the field magnets. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891] Reference
Duane's reasoning is, on the face of it, a lot more explicable: "" I've spent my whole life in a goddam pickup and what do I have to show for it? ''"". From Wordnik.com. [The Poet Lariat] Reference
The reversal of the interception was no more explicable than two other critical calls -- or more accurately noncalls -- that went the Colts 'way that afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [Play it Again, NFL] Reference
Yet tell them you're a writer and not only is everything explicable but people will stay and talk to you, telling you sometimes wonderful stories about their lives. From Wordnik.com. [Travel solo, never alone] Reference
It is believed that this conception of an internal innate force will ever remain necessary, however much its subordinate processes and actions may become explicable. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
These numbers may get a yawn from some analysts since the metrics are readily explicable: The Great Recession built up poverty and as it ebbs, so too, will the rate. From Wordnik.com. [Jodie Levin-Epstein: Make Kids' Brains "Too Big to Fail"] Reference
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