In an excusable manner or to an excusable degree.
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Of the two men, the Lieutenant excusably showed the blankest astonishment.
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She entered richly blushing, and excusably a little nervous and awkward.
3
George was startled, perhaps excusably, at the monstrous doctrine implied in Agg's remarks.
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I asked, turning on Billy, who stared-andexcusably-atthis evidence of our emotion.
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The personal habits can be excusably neglected by no one.
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When one writes of Mr. Hughes, men ask, pardonably, Which Mr. Hughes?
2
Both the Colonel and the Adjutant were pardonably shaken by this unparalleled response.
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I am exceedingly proud of my origin, pardonably so, perhaps, but still most proud.
4
Tom saw Stangrave's brow lower, and pardonably enough, at this.
5
About the fourteen biological specimens we were pardonably indefinite.
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Citizens of New Zealand and Australia -like those of Ireland and Britain -are forgivably sensitive about any confusion between the two nations.
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Her latest is a typically astute and funny reading of the foibles of human relationships, spiced up with a forgivably contrived comedic plot twist.
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And the American imagination, always receptive of the romantic, might readily and forgivably have pictured villas, maids in durance vile, and sword-thrusts under the moonlight.