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[ UK /pˈɑːdə‍ʊnəbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. admitting of being pardoned

How To Use pardonable In A Sentence

  • It is called venial precisely because, considered in its own proper nature, it is pardonable; in itself meriting, not eternal, but temporal punishment. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • Everything was explained in it -- everything made clear; and gradually she realised the natural, strong and pardonable craving of the rich, unloved man, to seek out for himself some means whereby he might leave all his world's gainings to one whose kindness to him had not been measured by any knowledge of his wealth, but which had been bestowed upon him solely for simple love's sake. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
  • The performance seemed to me unpardonable, a contradiction of all that the Olympics is supposed to be.
  • The performance seemed to me unpardonable, a contradiction of all that the Olympics is supposed to be.
  • There have been cases in which men have been mysteriously excruciated with the thought of having committed the unpardonable sin. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series
  • The Perth Saints seemed on their way to their first back-to-back victories of this league campaign when their defence committed an unpardonable error.
  • The performance seemed to me unpardonable, a contradiction of all that the Olympics is supposed to be.
  • Committed the unpardonable social error of enlisting as a private soldier in a regiment in which his grander cousin was an officer. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
  • Her unpardonable fault being that alas… She was born as a She.
  • Less pardonable is the reduction of Lincoln's complex politics to fuzzy psychological concepts like "growth," transforming the story of what was indeed a fiery political trial into a therapeutic fairy tale. The Path To Proclamation
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