Due and Tolerable

Due

Due adjective - Having reached the date at which payment is required.

Tolerable and due are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tolerable" instead an adjective "Due".

Tolerable

Tolerable adjective - Of a level of quality that meets one's needs or standards.
Usage example: the accommodations are tolerable though not exactly luxurious

Due and tolerable are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Due" instead an adjective "Tolerable".

Both words in one sentence

  • Humans Are Bastards Humans being bastards doesn't preclude them being pragmatic about it, so if there isn't a profit to be made by making the world a hellhole, they might not, but if conditions are tolerable it certainly isn't due to any inborn altruism on the part of those in charge.
  • Replacement Scrappy On the other hand, Joe Besser is universally hated, largely due to Besser's contractual stipulation that Moe couldn't hit him; this was like a kiss of death for any shorts featuring him, since annoyingly clownish characters are tolerable only so long as their annoyance is appropriately punished.
  • Video Game / Sacrifice Due to the cheapness of Animate Dead, the Glass Cannon nature of Charnel's minions and the somewhat indiscriminate nature of many of his spells, a one-to-one kill/loss ratio is entirely tolerable as long as you've got your creature's corpses around to animate/detonate.
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