excusably
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Adverb
excusably (comparative more excusably, superlative most excusably)
- In an excusable manner or to an excusable degree.
- 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “In which a Great Patriotic Conference is Holden”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, 2nd book (Riches), page 417:
- All people knew (or thought they knew) that he had made himself immensely rich; and, for that reason alone, prostrated themselves before him, more degradedly and less excusably than the darkest savage creeps out of his hole in the ground to propitiate, in some log or reptile, the Deity of his benighted soul.
- 2012 April 17, Edward N. Haas, “On Secret Sins”, in What Happens in Death + a Few Related Topics, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, footnote 1, page 129:
- But, having seen what monumentally disastrous consequences the Draconianism of their papal predecessors caused, no pope since then could possibly be excusably ignorant of how evil such Draconianism is as a result of the consequences it is all too likely to precipitate regardless of whether or not it is a punishment not exceeding the crime.