excuseable

There are some excuseable reasons where the home will be temporarily out of function, such as illness or moving, or other upheavals, but I've only recently learned that many girls getting out of school and getting into their own place, do not understand the basics of cleanliness and order.

The Harmless Housewife 2006

There are some excuseable reasons where the home will be temporarily out of function, such as illness or moving, or other upheavals, but I've only recently learned that many girls getting out of school and getting into their own place, do not understand the basics of cleanliness and order.

Archive 2006-06-01 2006

But outrageous things said by people on the right are excuseable; it's we lefties that have to be respectful and measured.

Archive 2005-07-01 2005

We went to war at any time and for any Object, when they bid Us. Now this being habitual to the Americans, it was excuseable in the Tories to behave upon this

John Adams diary 35, 26 October - 17 November 1782 1961

Tories have been justifiable or at least excuseable, and that We, only by a fortunate Coincidence of Events, have carried a wicked Rebellion into a compleat Revolution.

John Adams diary 36, 17 - 22 November 1782 1961

T [h] is [h] ad bin very excuseable, and not wit [h] out antient president.

Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703) G. W.

Carolineans; the negligence, bad policy and tyranny of the Proprietors; all concurred to render their usurpation not only excuseable, but absolutely necessary.

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt

For, in the first case she acts to support her life, and that is sometimes not merely excuseable but pardonable, and even worthy of the Divine Grace, for God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.

Penguin Island 1909

Giddy as the beautiful creature deprived of her natural aliment seems in her excuseable hunger for it, she has learnt her lesson, she is not a reeling libertine.

The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

Her prattle of our marriage in days to come was excuseable.

The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868