Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an excusable manner; so as to be pardoned; without blame.
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- adverb In an
excusable manner or to an excusable degree
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an excusable manner or to an excusable degree
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Examples
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Communities faced with daily homicides, rapes and extortions excusably opt for the myopic solution of the apathetic response as a type of survival mechanism.
Tobias Roberts: Reverence For The Sacred Land: A Response To Endemic Violence In Central America Tobias Roberts 2012
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Communities faced with daily homicides, rapes and extortions excusably opt for the myopic solution of the apathetic response as a type of survival mechanism.
Tobias Roberts: Reverence For The Sacred Land: A Response To Endemic Violence In Central America Tobias Roberts 2012
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Communities faced with daily homicides, rapes and extortions excusably opt for the myopic solution of the apathetic response as a type of survival mechanism.
Tobias Roberts: Reverence For The Sacred Land: A Response To Endemic Violence In Central America Tobias Roberts 2012
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Communities faced with daily homicides, rapes and extortions excusably opt for the myopic solution of the apathetic response as a type of survival mechanism.
Tobias Roberts: Reverence For The Sacred Land: A Response To Endemic Violence In Central America Tobias Roberts 2012
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Communities faced with daily homicides, rapes and extortions excusably opt for the myopic solution of the apathetic response as a type of survival mechanism.
Tobias Roberts: Reverence For The Sacred Land: A Response To Endemic Violence In Central America Tobias Roberts 2012
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Understandably, albeit not excusably, ostentatious landholding was favored most by new Whigs whose wealth and power came from trade.
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The reader, for his part, scarcely knows where to look, and wonders, very excusably, what species of organism it can possibly be, of which Britain, France, and Germany are members.
Assessing Causality 2008
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It was, of course, deplorable that any one should treat the truth as an article temporarily and excusably out of stock, but they felt gratified that the vivid accounts they had given of Mr. Scarrick's traffic in falsehoods should receive confirmation at first hand.
literature 2007
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“Innocence,” said the Lord Keeper, “is also confident, and sometimes, though very excusably, presumptuously so.”
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The slickness continued throughout the week: the show ran on time, the message came across, and the climax, Barack Obama's speech at Invesco Field in front of a sort of early-Mussolini backdrop, was either just right or excusably a tad over-the top.
Billy Kimball: The Conventions as Infomercials: I'm Sold! 2008
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