tolerable• An active social life may make the boredom of work more tolerable.• The taste of the medicine is bitter but tolerable.• There must have been a time when each of these practicesceased to be tolerable and reasonablebehaviour.• It was a tolerableexistence, but only just.• Most trafficjams are tolerable, lasting only 5 minutes or so.• The new measures can only hope to keep fraud at tolerable levels.• She will make my misery more tolerable, my slavery only half-slavery, my exile less a banishment.• The survey has produced the first national estimate of below tolerablestandard houses derived from consistently applied methods.• All in all, it was better to have a tolerabletenement than the ideal which no one could afford.• If you can make a bad orchestratolerable, that is valuable.• No manner of violence toward another human being is tolerable to me.• The tolerable was always becoming suspect, and the suspect often tolerated.