Lying is forgivable when it is done by a doctor trying to give heart to a terminally ill patient.
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Forgivable
Synonyms for "forgivable" (24 found)
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Strong matches (7)
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Related words (12)
Adjective(3 words)
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Antonyms
1 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
2 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
16 translations across 13 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- простим adj (able to be forgiven)
Danish
1 entries- tilgivelig adj (able to be forgiven)
Dutch
1 entries- vergeeflijk adj (able to be forgiven)
Esperanto
1 entries- pardonebla adj (able to be forgiven)
Finnish
1 entries- anteeksiannettava adj (able to be forgiven)
French
3 entries- excusable adj (able to be forgiven)
- pardonnable adj (able to be forgiven)
- véniel adj (able to be forgiven)
German
1 entries- verzeihlich adj (able to be forgiven)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- tilgivelig adj (able to be forgiven)
Polish
1 entries- wybaczalny adj (able to be forgiven)
Portuguese
1 entries- perdoável adj (able to be forgiven)
Romanian
2 entries- iertabil adj (able to be forgiven)
- scuzabil adj (able to be forgiven)
Russian
1 entries- прости́тельный adj (able to be forgiven)
Swedish
1 entries- förlåtlig adj (able to be forgiven)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
He's young, so it's forgivable.
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For me, as a city dweller, it's forgivable.
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It had a wonderful amount of hair for so young a child, and the mother’s pride in it was forgivable, for nearly all the babies of her acquaintance were bald.
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