Adjective: pardonable
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more pardonable |
| Superlative | most pardonable |
Sample Sentences
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Perhaps they set out to do too much, a more pardonable offence than doing too little. [1951 July, “Notes and News: Recalling 160 Years”, in Railway Magazine, page 492:]
Adjectives inflected like pardonable
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Back-formation from unpardonable, equivalent to pardon + -able.