excusably


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Synonyms for excusably

in an excusable manner or to an excusable degree

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Excusably, there was a swagger for much of this Chelsea performance that suggested they no longer thought if but when.
Ultimately, it is this radicalness of transcending the everyday, ordinary perspective that is not captured by the film, most excusably, as mentioned, due to the story's requirement to stay as much as possible in the realm of the mundane in an already wildly abstract film.
| 1) Kate Bush - Running up that Hill | I love the big, boisterous drums and excusably cheesy 1980s synth sounds.
Mitchell and makes up her mind that "some day in some happier season, she would confess to him that she hadn't confessed, though taking so much on her conscience." We have to parse this a little: James excusably fails to make a distinction between spiritual direction and the Sacrament of Confession.
"It shouldn't be surprising that only half a century later, most folks watching YouTube videos are still totally flummoxed by what they understandably and excusably can't comprehend."
UNWITTINGLY and excusably, racehorse trainer Nicky Henderson underlined how talent influences emotion.
Cosmopolitanism may also be regarded, excusably, as exclusionary for its historical association with the educated urban middle class.
(13) After all, the decision to be made into a dangerous man may often have been coerced, excusably ill-informed, or sincerely misguided.
Suddenly the three men who had under-pinned Durham's first innings were in and out, exposing the inexperienced middle order which had previously - if excusably - failed.
This argument suggests that many of the person--and states--causally responsible for pre-1990 greenhouse gas emissions should not be held morally responsible for their emissions because they were excusably ignorant of the consequences of their use of fossil fuels.
Whether a particular lie is excusably or not, whether it is inconsequential or not (as a cause of unlawful harm), depends on the particulars of the case.
What had been the comparatively simple and insoluble problem of finding money became the fearfully complicated business of visas, permits, and later the back-breaking task of persuading Higher Authority to release the Germans and Austrians it had hurriedly and, when all is said and done, excusably swept into internment at the time when we here were looking with horror at the abyss of treachery and panic which had gaped open suddenly in France.
Whatever human sacrifice entailed in the Idea of Israel--expulsion, spoliation, massacres, enslavement--are all excusably worth every life lost and every drop of blood spilled.
Major's accomplishment is to have scrubbed the work clean of "period charm" and left intact a stageful of deliciously human, carefully (but never cautiously) limned men and women, behaving like real people (or, perhaps, excusably theatrical heightenings thereof) rather than caricatured mannequins decked out in the heights-to-depths of Elizabethan fashion.