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• r  in an excusable manner or to an excusable degree

• Two skeletons come to light in an abandoned game-pit, clearing Dingaan of a murder he might pardonably have committeed.
• No ballistician, PTI'S Science writer erred pardonably in assigning "drift of waves" as one of the factors affecting the trajectory of a projectile fired at long range from a .
• Through his mask, he exclaimed unprofessionally but pardonably, "Christ, it's going to work!".

• excusably
• forgivably

• inexcusably
• unforgivably
• unpardonably