pardonable

Adjective

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

tenable minor logical acceptable legitimate slight reasonable trivial permissible lawful allowable understandable tolerable justifiable inconsequential
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Antonyms

unpardonable criminal deadly mortal awful dreadful
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Anagrams

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Examples

If 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

Close letter words and terms

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