Verb (used with object), : By his silence, he seemed to condone their behavior. From Dictionary.com.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I certainly don't think the way he's acting is condonable. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2007] Reference
That's certainly, I think, no one would argue that that was in any way condonable. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2002] Reference
That at least is sort of understandable in the political realm: maybe not condonable, but understandable. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Green: 7 Days: Why McCain Flip-Flops More Than Obama, w/ Alter, Huffington, Reagan & Green] Reference
That in the past philosophers only rarely took notice of disability is understandable, if not condonable. From Wordnik.com. [Feminist Perspectives on Disability] Reference
The conditions in these barracks are not condonable but they are better than living in a tent and sleeping on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Decrepit Army Barracks Exposed on YouTube - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
The point here, then, is that the first two instances, while not being condonable occurences in the least, seem to have been perpetrated by a minority of the population, who in the case of Pakistan are already wanted men. From Wordnik.com. [Women Erased in Israel, Flogged in Pakistan and Restricted in Afghanistan - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
But, lo! lo! by the threnning gods, human, erring and condonable, what the statues of our kuo, who is the messchef be our kuang, ashu ashure there, the unforgettable treeshade looms up behind the jostling judgements of those, as all should owe, malrecapturable days. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
Far, far less condonable is when that person has watched the child grow up. From Wordnik.com. [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Lawbreaking is hardly ever condonable; but sometimes you get the sense that there are deeper things in the recalcitrant mind. From Wordnik.com. [Room Eight] Reference
The soldiers 'rage is understandable, if not condonable, when nearly every Iraqi could be a potential supporter of the insurgents, if not one him - or herself. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
Time with those artifices which are rather a pity but quite condonable in the married woman, was handsomely dressed in black net embroidered with gold, and received with an aunt on either side of her. From Wordnik.com. [Senator North] Reference
For now, telling a prospective employer that one plays video games 'would not raise alarm bells', and gamers 'should not feel the need to lie ... dishonesty is not a condonable way to increase one's chances of landing a job', said Ms Yap. From Wordnik.com. [Jas9 Taipei.] Reference
Such teaching is therefore an unconscious or deliberate crime-breeder, and crime flourishes and will continue to flourish among freedmen so long as the doctrine obtains that all evil is condonable, and every infraction of morality a matter of intercession and forgiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion] Reference
Is it condonable for the US to support tyrants like Karamov ,Who boils people alive who he doesn’t like Exley. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Iraq’s New Freedom on Display: Hundreds of Thousands Chant ‘Death To America’] Reference
How about the overthrowing of Allende by the CIA that took the lives of 10 times the number of dead Americans ,which by the way also occured on 911 ,years earlier ,is that condonable ?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Iraq’s New Freedom on Display: Hundreds of Thousands Chant ‘Death To America’] Reference
Two men killed in a fight, that's condonable. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
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