excusablyadv.
/ɛkˈskjuːzəbli/ In a manner admitting of excuse; so as to deserve being excused.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > excuse > [adverb] > excusably
veniallya1340
pardonably1604
excusablya1631
veniably1646
excusedly1654
a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) ii. vi. §5 Priviledges and exemptions from that Law, he may be excusably ignorant of.
1714 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 3) I. iii. 411 He taught..that no Man could excusably live Idle in the World.
1808 L. Murray Eng. Gram. Illustr. I. App. 404 His ideas may, very excusably, be on some subjects incomplete.
1884 Manch. Examiner 21 Nov. 6/1 On this matter Lord Northbrook was excusably angry.
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