Excusable in a sentence as an adjective

So it's excusable here as it's a contextual quote.

No, that doesn't make data-loss bugs any more excusable.

This is not excusable. Excuses about this being a first gen product are obviously not valid.

Well I mean, clearly they do get to do that, but that is a problem, not excusable behavior. I treat clerks nicely because I am a decent person.

The cheating, although not excusable, could very well be partially blamed on the professor.

It's not made to be an rock-stable enterprise system doing bank transactions or what not, so I think what pg did was prefectly excusable. People make mistakes.

I don't see how the quote above is excusable. Before reading that you had my sympathy, but if you're going to trash-talk the rest of the community then good riddance.

It's not excusable really, but I'm not too surprised. It was only a day or so from when a patch was available to when a public exploit was everywhere.

To them, it's excusable for rights to be violated if they feel enough justified anger. They are unclear on the concept that rights apply to people and situations in ways they may not like.

Oh, there's an option for that" to stop default dangerous behavior should not be excusable. This is further proof on why DO isn't enterprise ready and still a toy for barely stable dotcoms.

For many people I know not being able to take their 20's seriously as powerhouse career years is sort-of excusable. They were spending them trying to survive, or raise a family all-too-soon.

Whether or not piracy is morally excusable, I am certain this form of legislation is not what the British public wants.

Fair use is an affirmative defense, which means that even if a violation occurred in a strict sense, that violation is excusable. It's not an "I didn't do it" argument, it's an "I shouldn't be punished because&;&."

It's not excusable, but also isn't as conspiratorial.

How is this excusable? I'm completely onboard with those who claim that we need some reform in scientific publishing, but Aaron's actions smack of low ethical standards to me, not to mention extremely poor judgement on his part.

It really seems like the authors are trying to excuse the unsanitary conditions when really it's not excusable to have them at any stage. Both the journalism and the topic at hand were disappointing.

I understand this is OFA, not the White House, and perhaps for a seat-of-the-pants campaign style event under normal circumstances, this would be excusable. But these are not normal circumstances.

No, it's not excusable - the MySQL project had a trivial alternative: don't call it UTF8! The options are simple: implement UTF-8 correctly and call your implementation UTF-8, or implement just the BMP and name accordingly.

Is there any conceivable scenario where this is in any way excusable? Deny continued service?

He actually said that your social strategy is a "shambles", which is excusable, and also that you "had 0 interest in improving this" -- which is not. He said that you were more interested in getting to the moon than in building a social network around the project.

Amazon found a way to compete before anyone else did, so that makes it excusable for illegally orchestrated price fixing to attack their legal approach? Sorry, but this isn't the "Think Different" approach the customers deserve.

While some may believe that the incriminating leaks were excusable, the rest of his behavior should not be forgotten. Honing in on one aspect of Manning's actions does not justify making him a martyr or painting this trial as purely an assault on the First Amendment.

Unauthorized autobiographies are a little rarer and less excusable.

If you didn't know the facts it is excusable mistake, but if you knew the facts and still wrote something that is factually wrong - because "joe six-pack can't handle the truth" - then I can't see how you can consider you're doing anything but plain and simple deception. And when "joe six-pack" with discover it - and he will, eventually - you'd be surprised why he doesn't believe any word you say anymore.

Legislators may include safe-harbor provisions to protect legitimate or excusable violations, or to incentivize the adoption of desirable practices.

I'm staunchly in favor of gay marriage, which I consider to be a no-brainer -- but it seems to me the motivations of Prop 8 proponents differ a lot in nature, with some being much more excusable than others in their wrongness. For example, there are people who have nothing against homosexuality but are attached to the symbolic value of 'marriage' as a Christian institution and would be completely fine with another civil contract with the same rights but a different name.

Excusable definitions

adjective

capable of being overlooked

adjective

easily excused or forgiven; "a venial error"

See also: forgivable venial