as in excusable
worthy of forgiveness
accidentally spilling your coffee on my newspaper is certainly a forgivable mishap
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Recent Examples of forgivable
And while most human errors are forgivable, maybe even expected, some cost more than an apology.
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Jason Phillips, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
Initially, Congress authorized up to $349 billion in forgivable loans as part of the program.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Jason Phillips, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
Initially, Congress authorized up to $349 billion in forgivable loans as part of the program.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for forgivable
Adjective
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Too many Republicans today seem to have a different idea, that bad behavior is excusable so long as the perpetrator is advancing their priorities.—
Colin Pascal,
Baltimore Sun,
4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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But even defensive gun uses that are ultimately ruled to be justifiable often result in legal consequences—investigations, charges, grand-jury proceedings, and sometimes trials.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
16 Sep. 2025
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There is a justifiable public-health rationale for going after these shops.—
Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
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But in this instance, the breach is entirely pardonable, because these two men, Jun and Arthur, have just gotten married.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Aug. 2025
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All this is to say that any excesses of enthusiasm for Friday (and Thursday) might seem pardonable, although each day reached the thermal pinnacle of the 80s.—
Martin Weil,
Washington Post,
19 July 2024
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“Forgivable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forgivable. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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