How To Use Forgivable In A Sentence

It's unavoidable, understandable, and perfectly forgivable under the circumstances.
They came to the conclusion that they had made an unforgivable mistake.
Such carelessness is unforgivable from a NATO hopeful. Georgia Takes a Beating in the Cyberwar With Russia - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
This slant is most unforgivable in its news coverage, given that paper's claim of journalistic objectivity. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Parasites, Politics, and the Press: Social Security Attackers' Covert Ops
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. Theodore Roosevelt

I am a senior and when I try to tell the younger generation what really happened they smile and more or less give the idea that old people are senile and the good people of the US would never have committed such an unforgivable sin.
I still feel a couple of moments were disjointed from the main story, but it's forgivable since I really got sucked into the novel from cover to cover. Archive 2010-05-01
He recommitted an unforgivable error.
Death is the unforgivable sin of modernity, and the modern world will have nothing to do with her.
For the latter, the act is unforgivable and the perpetrator irredeemable.
That is hyperbole but is perhaps forgivable. Times, Sunday Times
The Finishing School — surely forgivable from a writer of Spark's advanced seniority — seems not quite finished. The Prime of Ms. Muriel Spark
This is unsisterly and unforgivable, and actually counter-productive.
This was unforgivable form - but I was hot, sweating, badly sunburnt, my feet were freezing, wet and blistered, I was frantic with thirst, hungry and utterly dispirited.
One of our best subs, taken to task this morning for what I described as the unforgivable crime of putting an acute accent on the artist Edgar Degas 'surname in last week's paper, held his hand up to the offence but pointed out that he had been working on seven different pages under severe time pressure," Marsh writes. Regret the Error
It was an unforgivable crime to take her out into the Channel and blow her up. Times, Sunday Times
The conventional view today is that the war was an unforgivable waste of human life.
This is unsisterly and unforgivable, and actually counter-productive.
Drugs, of course, have replaced alcohol as the unforgivable sin, and to be found smoking cannabis is considered every bit as serious a crime as downing vintage cognac.
She is happily married to an Irish nabob, Eamon, whose Midas touch makes even his goyishness forgivable.
He explained that he was in fact on indefinite exile from the Parish for committing the unforgivable and irredeemable sins of garrulity, irreverent laughter, vile thoughts and oversleeping.
What is unforgivable though is the pointless gumph when Aragorn falls in to the river and drifts off, only, gosh, he returns just in time for the battle.
Less forgivable is the increasingly heavy-handed use of parallel patients: the woman uncomfortable in her own skin, the man whose left and right brains are at war. Season finale frenzy: 'House'
The awful bristliness of my still-unshaven face had now surpassed mere "designer stubble" and passed into the unforgivable realms of "actually a beard".
Bin Laden's fear of religious division, or fitna, is perhaps the main reason why hatred of the Saudi royal family, which has committed the unforgivable sin of allowing U.S. soldiers on Saudi soil since 1990, has not turned into a violent campaign against the house of as-Sa'ud and its very bombable oil wells. The Gospel According to Osama Bin Laden
The scale of the industrial action is unforgivable. The Sun
Conservatives have disagreed with the President before, on issues like “No Child Left Behind”, domestic spending and the Harriet Miers nomination, but this deviation from rightish orthodoxy was treated as the Unforgivable Sin. Immigration
They came to the conclusion that they had made an unforgivable mistake.
Less forgivable than the unaesthetic are the mercenary. The Golden Poppy
That's a mortal trespass, an unforgivable transgression that must be stopped.
In the world of Phoebe, striving unbacked by integrity may be blameworthy, but dullness is unforgivable.
To cap it all I wrote you that perfectly ghastly, unforgivable letter six short days ago!
The colliding egos of senior officials caused momentary and unforgivable lapses. Times, Sunday Times
A source said: 'It was an unforgivable blunder. The Sun
Now is the time for homophobic legislation and talk to be seen for what it is: as shocking as racism, as unforgivable as antisemitism.
It is unforgivable - and it is absolutely imperative that we make speedy restitution to the victims of the cover-ups. Times, Sunday Times
The use of force is appalling, indiscriminate barbarity unforgivable.
Two types of forgiveness may thus be distinguished: conditional ( "calculable" forgiveness following an act of repentance in which the guilty party promises never to engage in what is demanded by forgiveness) andunconditional (forgiving the unforgivable without conditions, a forgiveness which is incalculable and therefore impossible). Jacques Derrida, 9/11, And The Democracy Which is Yet to Come
Being late is an unforgivable sin round here.
The first set had, like, three cuts, but since Paramount had to clear all of the Frank Zappa stuff in addition to the music they did retain, that's kind of forgivable and understandable. Duck-Cuts
Being late is an unforgivable sin round here.
This flaw is forgivable, a natural result of working with a canvas 843 acres large.
If you go (metaphorically speaking) down the British class scale, you've gone from Cockney to "mockney," and can expect a public tar and feathering; to go the other way is to perform an unforgivable act of class betrayal. Speaking in Tongues
Perhaps he blurs fact and fiction a little in places but then again I guess that's forgivable in his line of work.
Thirty or forty years ago, in the first flush of the sexual revolution, such ignorance would be forgivable.
We've made accommodations to the system and allowances for ourselves which is natural and forgivable.
At a karaoke bar, bad singing is forgivable, even expected.
But if I was looking to buy a house, for me there are some unforgivable sins. The Sun
What she did was unforgivable, but the odd thing was he didn't seem to mind.
With his mother and her unforgivable be - haviour! The Bellini Bride
I guess it's unforgivable that I read them before I give them to her.
But there are a couple of things that are unforgivable, regardless which tie-in a game is part of. The Sun
It seems that James Carville for reasons his fellow mental captives will call forgivable, seems to have repeatedly hoped President Bush would fail. ¡No Pasarán!
The mad girl crouching in the corner with her frock up and the unforgivable substance coming from her mouth.
Forgivable, in the loosest meaning of the word; after all, ladies of our acquaintance have committed worse crimes.
What happened was that I had committed an unforgivable sin. The Other Side of Me
In the aeromedical of the federal the interestingly forgivable donation of sashimi cyamus callosectomy in, reharmonisation his suslik germanite to the one of a angiocarpic soman that sabotage hornbook his iniquity ringing ominously. Rational Review
Such crude words from your lips is unforgivable in the daughter of a titled lord, is it not?
I think that sometimes “forgiving” the unforgivable is another form of denial. The Glass Castle « Tales from the Reading Room
This manipulation of masses of people was an unforgivable violation of his cetic ethics. THE BROKEN GOD
Many sins are forgivable, but charging handsomely for coffee that comes directly from an outsized tin of own-label instant is not one of them.
And what's particularly unforgivable is the way the theme music is ruined.
However, the restaurant's most unforgivable sin, for which the cook should be banished to Hades forever, was to overcook the pasta.
But the behavior of the media this season has been unforgivable, and the media in abstracto can accurately be said to have operated as a subsidiary of the Obama campaign, and to the extent that a subset generally shares the characteristic of a superset, are part of a machine that has its mind set on causing great harm to this country and its Constitution. Joe the Journalist.
So it's kind of forgivable because it's not with malicious intent, it's just out of ignorance. CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2007
It is no disgrace to try and fail but to waste so much possession without having a go from scoreable positions is unforgivable.
Luke O'Malley had committed the unforgivable sin - he had informed on his friends.
Some politicians (the late Charles Haughey, plain 'Charlie' to all Ireland, comes to mind) have the invaluable knack of reminding their constituents of their own easily forgivable improbities, and Palin appears to be one of them. PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All
We shouldn't let religiosity have us think that it's as simple as unforgivable sin. Times, Sunday Times
With the technology and experience at our disposal, it would be unforgivable to miss this historic opportunity.
Losing to a side second in Serie A is almost forgivable. The Sun
But those are the kind of forgivable -- we should all be so -- remember names as well when we're -- when we're 93. The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory & the American Revolution
Molly spent an unforgivable moment fighting the feeling of inadequacy she'd carried away from the witness stand with her. BAD MEDICINE
But he found that, as he talked on, saying unforgivable things in a low, unemphatic voice, he could not, in fact, watch her face. DARE CALL IT TREASON
If one of their coping strategies is to fetishise a few silly fashion labels, isn't that forgivable?
The existence of the petition process is an unforgivable sin, and we actually permit this to exist for decades!
Prejudice can take many forms, most of which are unforgivable.
Aside from an entertaining opening sequence, the only new ground that this film covers is when it commits the unforgivable sin of revising one of Milne's past stories.
That sort of insight makes the film's occasional overindulgence forgivable.
What Will had just done was, by the driver's standards, unforgivable.
No offense is unforgivable unless you make It'so . Use your power wisely.
And for that wilful and unforgivable act, he deserves no sympathy at all. The Sun
To go into someone's house and be obscene is unforgivable.
It was then, and then only, that I decided to embark on the series of actions that I now agree were unforgivable.
Rhyming "through a storm" with "whatever weather/cold or warm" in the chorus is unforgivable for a master rhymer. Eminem: Recovery
Being late is an unforgivable sin round here.
It also commits two completely unforgivable sins, both of which I will get to momentarily.
It is outrageous, unforgivable and a total travesty of the law. The Sun
A good midwestern girl, raised on corn and chicken and food you could grab ahold of, must have done something unforgivable to deserve this slippery thing. Day of Honey
But dishing out unscreened and potentially-lethal blood transfusions to wounded troops on the battlefield is completely avoidable - and utterly unforgivable. The Sun
And to sell out all superheroes as Tony Stark’s lapdog is unforgivable. Win Planet Hulk Before You Can Buy It! » DVDs Worth Watching
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. Theodore Roosevelt
All the more unforgivable is the fact that this claim was even necessary to protect our constitutional right to gather and engage in peaceful protest, for this was a lawsuit never should have been. Civil Rights
Peter Drucker called this vested interest in despoiling employees an "unforgivable social crime" on the part of America's management class. Good Times for the Bad Guys
Monheit overembellished the melody, which might have been forgivable if she hadn't also overemoted, once even interjecting a theatrical sob. The Singing Epidemic
Plans to introduce tougher planning rules are unforgivable.
This was an aberration on my part but I make no excuses for what was an unforgivable incident.
Life Changers teach us to forgive ourselves for things we imagine to be unforgivable.
It is unforgivable - and it is absolutely imperative that we make speedy restitution to the victims of the cover-ups. Times, Sunday Times
If Rowling had written it, it would be called an Unforgivable, the Broken Heart Curse, to be hit with a hex that forces you to relive your greatest regrets in magnified, accusatory glory. All in a day « Love | Peace | Ohana
A simple forgivable and retractable remark cannot destroy him, especially if he'd apologize.
It is difficult to decide whether this indifference is another instance of charming whimsicality or just unforgivable negligence. The Times Literary Supplement
The unforgivable, reality , however, was the loss of the border provinces, Alsace and Lorrain.
The company then applied for and was granted the forgivable loan.
This wasn't a forgivable tiny piece of eggshell, but a large wall of shell that looked like a shiv a bird might carve in prison.
Such carelessness is unforgivable from a NATO hopeful. Georgia Takes a Beating in the Cyberwar With Russia - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
In Robert Bloch’s short story "The Unforgivable Sin", mopery is the titular indiscretion BLAH BLAH JLA FLASH ADAM BRODY BLAH
God's apparent abdication from the affairs of the world seemed unforgivable. Birthday
Here is one context where swings of media opinion are forgivable, indeed almost necessary. Times, Sunday Times
Even worse, director John Irvin commits the unforgivable sin of mistaking shocks for scares.
Being late is an unforgivable sin round here.
Unlike some, I don't consider it an unforgivable sin to be a social conservative.
Another practice employed by FTI, doling out "forgivable" loans, is far less common in corporate America. Is FTI Consulting
It is outrageous, unforgivable and a total travesty of the law. The Sun
It is difficult to decide whether this indifference is another instance of charming whimsicality or just unforgivable negligence. The Times Literary Supplement
Yet it's possible that Edina may be even less forgivable as that most loathsome of types, the undeserving rich.
That is why murder is literally unforgivable: How can a dead man absolve his killer?
I only avoid anyone that has no excuse for not using their brain - unforgivable waste of air and space. On Being a Woman and a Scientist
To compound this unforgivable error of judgement, I then only gave his work a cursory glance before allowing him to leave.
To drag an old friend and a new one into a maelstrom of complications was nearly unforgivable.
Johnston's love of "theatricals" is well-represented, and if some of his Old Etonian ribaldry sounded better than it reads 20 years on, it is forgivable because the opportunity to indulge his passions is executed engagingly and with such enthusiasm. The Best Views from the Boundary – Test Match Special's Greatest Interviews
The divisiveness and hate mongering that Sarah Palin propagated during her election run is not only unforgivable, it was treasonous. Palin's PAC forced to correct FEC filing
He's very clearly reading it off his autocue, which is forgivable, but he isn't putting a lot of life into it. 32 nanometre technology! CES 2012: Intel keynote from Otellini brings Atom to smartphones
And lateness is very forgivable when there's a hubby-prepared elaborate meal involved. Double-Header Postgame Post! Now with great linking action!
In the aeromedical of the federal the interestingly forgivable donation of sashimi cyamus callosectomy in, reharmonisation his suslik germanite to the one of a angiocarpic soman that sabotage hornbook his iniquity ringing ominously. Rational Review
Such seasonal dips in mood are entirely forgivable. Times, Sunday Times
Molly spent an unforgivable moment fighting the feeling of inadequacy she'd carried away from the witness stand with her. BAD MEDICINE
Without the stellar writing that fueled the books/radio show/etc., you're left with an empty shell of banal surreality, which is unforgivable given that this series has -- built right in -- the greatest plot contrivance in the history of storytelling: the Infinite Improbability Drive. May 2nd, 2005
But investigating a pupil's sex life would be an unforgivable intrusion.
In the aeromedical of the federal the interestingly forgivable donation of sashimi cyamus callosectomy in, reharmonisation his suslik germanite to the one of a angiocarpic soman that sabotage hornbook his iniquity ringing ominously. Rational Review
First - this is the "forgivable" part - there's no joint for wrist articulation. Anime Nano!
No offense is unforgivable unless you make It'so.
Such rhetoric would be forgivable if sugar-coated by a genuinely interesting film.
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That they disintegrated to an ill-behaved rabble, with senior players in open dissent, was unforgivable.
They endured some bad luck along the way - losing the toss, losing the nuggetty Khaled Mashud to an unfortunate lbw - but they lost their heads as well, and that was more unforgivable.
If women knew that their spite will go unrewarded, perhaps fewer would stoop to this despicable, and unforgivable, crime.
Knowing the story happened makes the film's cheesier points forgivable. The Sun
They are being met with indifference or active hostility because they have committed the unforgivable sin of cooperating with the Americans.
For others, the distance of three years makes what happened feel both implausible and unforgivable.
The present old age pension compared to today's average wage is an unforgivable insult and an absolute disgrace.
To mislead parliament - even inadvertently - is the unforgivable sin.
THE greed and cynicism of lawyers who accused British soldiers of war crimes is unforgivable. The Sun
A blasé approach to such a shocking crime is unforgivable. The Sun
The racism alluded to in the first part explodes in all its savagery, and the town – which seemed to be guilty only of a forgivable insularity – becomes a cesspit.
By carefully delineating each character, Lee avoids demonising either side - their actions always understandable, if not forgivable.
If you feel the infidelity is unforgivable and you cannot move on from the affair then it is time to leave.
That husbands, fathers, or sons are never wrong, and must always be right presupposes a perfectionism most men cannot live up to, and betrayal of the patriarchy is always considered the worst betrayal to other men, the one unforgivable sin that cannot be tolerated. Subverting Patriarchy: Not just for chicks anymore. « A Bird’s Nest
I put down the pen, because this would be the great, unforgivable Miltonian sin.
For the latter, the act is unforgivable and the perpetrator irredeemable.
The Chorus of Furies insists that no one can save him from their clutches, because the crime of matricide is an unforgivable sin no matter what, adding that they want to drain away all of his blood and take his life.
Wronging a woman is the unforgivable sin in Holmes's book.
It's faux news for a slow day, not even a slow day but a slow hour, which in cable apparently is an unforgivable sin.
The controls are sluggish and unresponsive, which when you're trying to pull off a series of trick moves is just unforgivable.
Less forgivable would be abusing the trust of an ally, as some suspect the government has.
That is an unforgivable failure, in my judgment, and one that we ought to debate.
This is unforgivable in the realm of scientific methodology.
the blatancy of his attempt to whitewash the crime was unforgivable
Marriage in his eyes is sacred; adultery the unforgivable sin.
What is most unforgivable is to leave and not see your child.
Nevertheless, it is unforgivable to reduce it to the easy, depoliticised humour of this offering.
This one has an unforgivable, unnecessary shot that resolves a mini-plot thread featuring a legless little girl.
This format once was regarded as forgivable, back when illustrations were printed in separate signatures on better paper, which these are not.
His personality was horribly deformed; his crimes were unforgivable.
Nobody is likely to find too much to fault with the likable characters and high production values (although the battle scenes are quite dire window dressing at times), but the haphazard story development would be more forgivable if the title opted to make things (even) less serious. AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
That they disintegrated to an ill-behaved rabble, with senior players in open dissent, was unforgivable.
Johnston's love of "theatricals" is well-represented, and if some of his Old Etonian ribaldry sounded better than it reads 20 years on, it is forgivable because the opportunity to indulge his passions is executed engagingly and with such enthusiasm. The Best Views from the Boundary – Test Match Special's Greatest Interviews
And Lordy, the script committed two unforgivable sins.
Still, all of it would be just about forgivable had their eponymous debut been magnificent.
Members see any concession not as a necessary compromise but as an unforgivable sellout to a sworn enemy.
Such rhetoric would be forgivable if sugar-coated by a genuinely interesting film.
Everything on victory night is forgivable and it seems as if the laws of morality, common sense, frugality and physiology are to be set aside. Times, Sunday Times

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