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What is "forgivable"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
forgivable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ These are a few forgivable flaws in an otherwise important novel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And I reckon the odd lapse is forgivable.
▪ I thought it was forgivable, egocentric but forgivable.
▪ Less forgivable is the attitude taken by some museums who are frightened of the consequences of having their collection screened.
▪ That might have been forgivable while Maurice was alive.
▪ That, given that only forty years have passed, may be forgivable.
▪ They became less and less forgivable as time cooled the heat of the moments in which they had been spoken.
▪ When, in November, it blessed the use of force to achieve this goal, the fanfare was forgivable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forgivable

Forgivable \For*giv"a*ble\, a. Capable of being forgiven; pardonable; venial.
--Sherwood.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
forgivable

1540s, from forgive + -able. Related: Forgivably.

Wiktionary
forgivable

a. Able to be forgiven; excusable

WordNet
forgivable

adj. easily excused or forgiven; "a venial error" [syn: excusable, venial]

Usage examples of "forgivable".

All failings of a princess are forgivable but one: failure to bear a son.

Weinbaum, but the dazzling photographs from Mariner 4 showed him a bleak and barren terrain, and he concluded that the writers had been indulging in the lovely, forgivable dreams of childhood.

Such partisanship is understandable and certainly forgivable, for [804] decisions of great moment confront us, and it is inevitable that defense of one’s priorities should become furious.

But I kept that soft, flexible, givable, forgivable bit to roll and coax, until he cried out above me, and his body thrust forward, but he couldn’t complete it.