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" (23 found)
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Closest matches (5)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (7)
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (11)
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More general
1 entriesmoral attribute
More specific
2 entriesCollocations
6 entriesexcusable errorforgivable mistakeforgivable offensemorally forgivablepardonable offenserelatively forgivable
Inflections
2 entriesmore forgivablemost forgivable
Derivations
4 entriessimilar
1 entriesSample 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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