Pardonably

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a pardonable manner.

    "Both men were astonished (and I imagine, pardonably proud) when I told them that our Canadian National road over the Rocky Mountain Summit through Yellowhead Pass above Jasper, is almost exactly only one-third as steep as Shap Bank!"

Adverb
  1. 1
    in an excusable manner or to an excusable degree wordnet

Synonyms

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excusablyforgivablyforgivably

Example

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"Both men were astonished (and I imagine, pardonably proud) when I told them that our Canadian National road over the Rocky Mountain Summit through Yellowhead Pass above Jasper, is almost exactly only one-third as steep as Shap Bank!"

Etymology

From pardonable + -ly.

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