1. It was an easily forgivable mistake.

2. His rudeness was forgivable in the circumstances.

3. I thought it was forgivable, egocentric but forgivable.

4. That might have been forgivable while Maurice was alive.

5. And I reckon the odd lapse is forgivable.

6. These are a few forgivable flaws in an otherwise important novel.

7. Less forgivable is the attitude taken by some museums who are frightened of the consequences of having their collection screened.

8. His harshness is forgivable.

9. They became less and less forgivable as time cooled the heat of the moments in which they had been spoken.

10. Is infidelity ever forgivable?

11. What he did is forgivable.

12. The rival's arrival gives him a forgivable chance.

12. Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

13. Less forgivable would be abusing the trust of an ally, as some suspect the government has.

14. Although sometimes tolerable and forgivable, taking a mistress is regarded as immoral in all countries.

15. It would have been understandable, if not forgivable, had David Cameron ducked a showdown with Leviathan.

16. The forgivable response is to hope and get the blusher out.

17. That, given that only forty years have passed, may be forgivable.

18. When, in November, it blessed the use of force to achieve this goal, the fanfare was forgivable.

19. 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.

20. His actions, to his small perverted mind, were surely forgivable.

21. Against a background like this, a little waywardness in the world of macroeconomics seems entirely forgivable.

22. The party members who support or take part in pseudoscience activities will not be forgivable.

23. The earlier part of the show had problems with the original tape which was impossible to fix, hope that is forgivable.

24. This was a blunder by Mr Baker, but it was a forgivable one.