condonable

Example Sentences

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In other words, we were all scared spitless, so it’s ... understandable if not precisely condonable, that the CIA behaved in ways that betrayed our national values.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 6, 2014

In this wrong-headed world nobody was beyond criticism, and anybody's faults, condonable though they might seem at a distance, could hardly fail of exaggeration into vices through daily observation at close range.

From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Vance, Louis Joseph

If Blanco White, whose dying and hopeless sufferings excited the sympathy even of Cardinal Newman, had done the same thing, it would have been condonable.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob

If Summerlad's character as she read it had faults, if an occasional crudity flawed his finish, these things were held to be condonable in view of his youth.

From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Vance, Louis Joseph