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forgivable

adjective as in excusable

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If all this were the setup for a coming-of-age story in which Important Lessons Are Learned, it would be forgivable.

All that would be somewhat forgivable if Jackson were arrogant or just plain dumb.

Instead Mr. Emanuel uttered his indefensible but forgivable remark, and Ms. Palin called for him to be fired.

Make It Right helps former residents secure forgivable loans to buy the homes.

And El-Soo had wit—rarely sharp to hurt, yet quick to search out forgivable weakness.

Is it forgivable to bend across a man or woman and raise the window without a word of excuse, or a cordial smile of understanding?

It will be dreadfuller and bitterer; its horrors will be less and less forgivable; it will leave vast sundering floods of hate.

It was inevitable, and in a sense forgivable, seeing that it had been brought about by Bartie's sheer impossibility.

The smile of peace and pardon on the statue's illumined face seemed to make all sin forgivable in this haunt of holy dreams.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to forgivable, such as: pardonable, trivial, and venial.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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