Adjective
Admitting of pardon; not requiring the excution of penalty; venial; excusable; -- applied to the offense or to the offender; as, a pardonable fault, or culprit.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIf this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable. William Congreve
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; But when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable. Sophocles
By a pardonable abridgment of history, the Rationalist character may be seen springing from the exaggeration of Bacon's hopes and the neglect of the scepticism of Descartes; modern Rationalism is what commonplace minds made out of the inspiration of men of discrimination and genius. Michael Oakeshott
Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them. François de La Rochefoucauld
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal. Cicero