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Put yourself in my place, and you will call this pardonable.
It was a pardonable liberty to employ his services now.
What Orwell did was not the pardonable act of a dying man.
With pardonable pride, he thought he was pretty good at it.
No one, however, would have thought of reproaching him for an error so pardonable.
With pardonable satisfaction Gregory watched them close in upon his enemy.
Which was a considerable exaggeration; but pardonable under the circumstances.
It's an obvious metaphor that the director is reaching for here, but pardonable.
What might be pardonable for an ordinary Other is not acceptable from you."
And so on the whole it might be pardonable caution to burn his bridges behind him.
"Oh, it would take more than that to damage her," said Tom, with pardonable pride.
She squinted down the length of her own trunk with pardonable pride.
"Really, Geoffrey, it is too bad of you," said the lady with some pardonable irritation.
The Admiral hated marriage, and thought it never pardonable in a young man of independent fortune.
What is it about being a supermodel that makes any social or legal transgression so pardonable?
"Judy knew that would bring me back from the dead," said Hilary with pardonable exaggeration.
A piece of pedantry pardonable in a youth of 25.
The Times reported that "most pardonable pandemonium reigned for fully half an hour".
Then he raised his head, with pardonable pride.
But these are pardonable lapses in a considerable accomplishment.
They were also pardonable on grounds of momentary insanity.
She had satisfied a pardonable curiosity, and had gone away without mentioning her name.
It was an exaggeration but a pardonable one.
But when a busy kitchen can produce so many outstanding dishes, the few missteps are pardonable.
"It was a tough job, but one that should work," Long Tom said, with pardonable pride.