excusable
可原谅的,可原谅,情有可原,可笑
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ex·cused, ex·cus·ing.
- : to regard or judge with forgiveness or indulgence; pardon or forgive; overlook: Excuse his bad manners.
- : to offer an apology for; seek to remove the blame of: He excused his absence by saying that he was ill.
- : to serve as an apology or justification for; justify: Ignorance of the law excuses no one.
- : to release from an obligation or duty: to be excused from jury duty.
- : to seek or obtain exemption or release for: to excuse oneself from a meeting.
- : to refrain from exacting; remit; dispense with: to excuse a debt.
- : to allow to leave: If you'll excuse me, I have to make a telephone call.
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- : an explanation offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or for release from an obligation, promise, etc.: His excuse for being late was unacceptable.
- : a ground or reason for excusing or being excused: Ignorance is no excuse.
- : the act of excusing someone or something.
- : a pretext or subterfuge: He uses his poor health as an excuse for evading all responsibility.
- : an inferior or inadequate specimen of something specified: That coward is barely an excuse for a man. Her latest effort is a poor excuse for a novel.
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Examples
I told him, I thought if I kept making enough excuses, he would probably get the clue.
Coach Bill Belichick has spoken publicly about the team’s approach to the salary cap in recent years leaving the Patriots strapped this season for cap room, leading to follow-up questions about whether Belichick was making excuses.
In the latest edition of our Confessions series, in which we trade anonymity for candor, we hear from one agency exec who says that the “times are tough” excuse isn’t cutting it anymore.
The same was true of states like Louisiana and Texas, which still required voters to provide an excuse to vote absentee.
As a result, only 19 percent of Americans believed that voters should need an excuse other than the pandemic to vote absentee.
Why are Palestinians granted a license of bloodlust as an excusable remedy for their suffering?
And what, exactly, would an excusable yearning be as opposed to an “inexcusable” one?
When you engaged yourself to the young woman you were poor and a nobody, and the step was perhaps excusable.
And certainly a Pastor is excusable who fails to do things of which he has no knowledge.
Et de verit vn Pasteur est excusable qui manque faire chose dont il n'a connoissance.
He is excusable; for how can a man whose digestion is just beginning understand that people could anywhere die of starvation.
This weakness was excusable, for the forest was growing very dark—lonely it always was—and full of strange sounds.