Dispensable [adjective]

Definition of Dispensable:

not necessary; able to be thrown away

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Sentence/Example of Dispensable:

By the time we crawled into sleeping-bags, everything dispensable was piled alongside the depot-flag.

And deferentially he stood waiting, but as if conscious of being dispensable, to be asked to take her home.

We are thus once more reminded of the distinction between essential or unavoidable relational concepts and the dispensable type.

It did not seem to me profitable to be killed for the sake of a sentiment which seemed weak and dispensable.

The baron, my galling and dispensable old Hohenfels, would have arrived and scolded.

There was no middle course between coveting a woman and neglecting her as entirely dispensable.

The white man's last dispensable possession had gone as a reward for the service.

In commanding contrast to his first circular, this fairly seems to crowd out every dispensable expression.

He believes that what is dispensable by the one, without loss, is dispensable by the other.

In fact, the catalogue of imports offer several articles more dispensable than coffee and sugar.