Pardonable
adjective
Able to be forgiven.
To make a mistake is a pardonable offense.
Often appears as...
- pardonable mistake
- pardonable offense
adjective
Able to be forgiven.
To make a mistake is a pardonable offense.
Often appears as...
- pardonable mistake
- pardonable offense
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Severity Matters
Use 'pardonable' for less serious offenses, not grave wrongdoings.
Arriving late due to traffic is a pardonable mistake.
Pro Tip 2/3Apology Expected
A 'pardonable' act often assumes the person will apologize or show remorse.
He apologized at once for his tardiness, a pardonable lapse.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Sensitive
What's pardonable can depend on culture, situation or relationship.
In some cultures, a small lie to avoid offense is pardonable.
Pro Tip 1/3Severity Matters
Use 'pardonable' for less serious offenses, not grave wrongdoings.
Arriving late due to traffic is a pardonable mistake.
Pro Tip 2/3Apology Expected
A 'pardonable' act often assumes the person will apologize or show remorse.
He apologized at once for his tardiness, a pardonable lapse.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Sensitive
What's pardonable can depend on culture, situation or relationship.
In some cultures, a small lie to avoid offense is pardonable.
Pro Tip 1/3Severity Matters
Use 'pardonable' for less serious offenses, not grave wrongdoings.
Arriving late due to traffic is a pardonable mistake.
Pro Tip 2/3Apology Expected
A 'pardonable' act often assumes the person will apologize or show remorse.
He apologized at once for his tardiness, a pardonable lapse.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Sensitive
What's pardonable can depend on culture, situation or relationship.
In some cultures, a small lie to avoid offense is pardonable.
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Quote examples
Charles Edward Merriam
American Educator
If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.
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Thomas Huxley
English Scientist
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
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Saint Basil
Greek Saint
All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
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Samuel Richardson
English Novelist
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Morrissey
English Musician
Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.
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Emma Goldman
Russian Activist
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
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William Congreve
English Poet
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
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Ambrose Bierce
American Journalist
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
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Charles Edward Merriam
American Educator
If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.
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Thomas Huxley
English Scientist
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
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Saint Basil
Greek Saint
All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
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Samuel Richardson
English Novelist
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Morrissey
English Musician
Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.
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Emma Goldman
Russian Activist
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
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William Congreve
English Poet
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
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Ambrose Bierce
American Journalist
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
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