open to question



arguable, at issue, conjectural, contestable, controversial, controvertible, debatable, deniable, disputable, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, iffy, in dispute, in doubt,

   dust of ages - age, antiquity, atavism, inveteracy, primogeniture, senility, seniority ,

   yielding - abandonment, abatement of differences, abdication, abjuration, acceptance, accommodating, accommodation, acquiescence, acquiescent, adaptable, adjustment, agreeable, amenable, arrangement, assent,

   birdbrain - dolt, fool ,

   hard-luck guy - loser, sad sack, unfortunate, victim ,

   rebuild - accommodate, adapt, adjust, alter, ameliorate, better, break up, change, convert, copy, deform, denature, diversify, do over, do up,

   shirred - baked, coddled, curried, fired, fried, heated, parboiled, roast, scalloped, seared, stewed ,

   chewing tobacco - chew, cud, navy, pigtail, quid, twist ,

   shames - acolyte, beadle, clerk, deacon, elder, lecturer, reader, sacristan, sexton ,

   indigence - bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, deprivation, destitution, empty purse, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, homelessness, impecuniousness, impoverishment, lack, mendicancy,

   tiring - boring, draining, drudging, exhausting, fatiguing, gruelling, irksome, killing, punishing, straining, stressful, stupefyingly boring, tedious, tiresome, toilsome,