excusably
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The inventor of the new word, excusably pleased with himself, hammers for nearly 400 pages to drive it into the language.
From Time Magazine Archive
But readers who excusably shy off from one more English story of industrial tragedy in the Midlands need not be so quick to leave Author Hodson's vicinity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, with a peacetime conscription bill due for early passage Congress and public were still excusably confused about what worst they were preparing against.
From Time Magazine Archive
But these scientists, engaged in a $3.5 million project to help measure and ultimately predict tornadoes and severe storms, are excusably excited.
From Time Magazine Archive
The colloquial phrase job-work has perplexed, and very excusably, the worthy Belgian, and he has drawn from a very harmless expression a terrible significance.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
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