excusable

Speech parts

1. excusable - Adjective

2. excusable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

That may be excused, forgiven, justified, or acquitted of blame; pardonable; as, the man is excusable; an excusable action.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

venial forgivable right legal clear tenable minor proper valid fair logical rational acceptable legitimate slight
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Antonyms

inexcusable crooked circular bitter curved ambiguous
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Examples

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. Robert Fripp

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do. Voltaire

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. G. K. Chesterton

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result. Yukio Mishima

Lying is not only excusable it is not only innocent it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne. H. L. Mencken

a venial error Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

excursus excurved excusability excusableness excusably excusal