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• r  in an excusable manner or to an excusable degree

• There are, perhaps forgivably, some dancers who eventually come to view the show about as charitably as a harpsichordist girding for his umpty-umpth Messiah.
• Far enough removed from her own childhood (she is 75) to be forgivably sentimental about it, she writes with her accustomed sub-humorous kindliness of the little girl she was.
• The slogan was forgivably boosterish then, but now change is regarded far more neutrally.

• excusably
• pardonably

• inexcusably
• unforgivably
• unpardonably

News & Articles

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• Parker: Amtrak should go to the dogs
  You might say I have a dog in this fight. He's tiny. He's blind. His bark is decidedly unmanly and his bites, usually in defense against things that can't be seen, are forgivably innocuous. I am his seeing-eye human.
  June 7, 2013 - Savannah Morning News
• Dogs to earth
  You might say I have a dog in this fight. He’s tiny. He’s blind. His bark is decidedly unmanly and his bites, usually in defense against things that can’t be seen, are forgivably innocuous.
  June 6, 2013 - The Wenatchee World
• Parker: Blind poodle finds home
  In today's Register Parker: Blind poodle finds home Register Jun 6, 2013 if (!window.OX_ads) { OX_ads = []; } OX_ads.push({ "auid" : "417992" }); document.write(' '); Excerpt : You might say I have a dog in this fight. He’s tiny. He’s blind. His bark is decidedly unmanly and his bites, usually in defense against things that can’t be seen, are forgivably innocuous. I am his seeing-eye human. I ...
  June 6, 2013 - The Sandusky Register