pardonable
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4.4
- adjective
- /ˈpɑrdənəbl/
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perdonable
- Twenty years ago I made the pardonable mistake of thinking I could civilize a girl who bought her hats out of a Sears Roebuck catalog.
One of these, he says, is a pardon, pardonable weakness or curiosity.
- One of these, he says, is a pardon, pardonable weakness or curiosity.
Examples
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Certainly pardonable by love.
Fiction book (1999) -
Thus, all the adult male relatives of the victim are aware of the situation so that they later have no pardonable excuse if they violate the dakhala law.
Academic text (1990) -
I held with pardonable pride the place that Johnson occupied.
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This is an achievement that can be acknowledged with pardonable pride.
Blog text (19) -
One of these, he says, is a pardon, pardonable weakness or curiosity.
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And, and it's pardonable in a way that we should be bad statisticians.
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Well, when I see one of the Parkes of Boston serving hors d'oeuvre... I think I'm entitled to a pardonable curiosity.
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Blushing slightly, she glances up at the sky and then looks at Edgar as though by inviting her he'd done something slightly naughty but pardonable, something endearing.
Fiction book (1999) -
It's pardonable to make mistakes when you're learning something new.
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Her minor errors in the presentation were seen as pardonable given the circumstances.
Synonyms
7
3.3
Not very serious, so people usually excuse it
6
3.6
Someone can forgive it because of the situation, for example an honest mistake
Antonyms
How Forgivable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pardonable comes from pardon, which itself comes from older parts meaning 'fully' and don ('to give'), the same root as donate. So to pardon someone is like 'giving' forgiveness, and something pardonable is able to be forgiven.