excuse
Older people are particularly vulnerable to professional neglect, or more often and more excusably, to inaccurate assessment.
She might excusably regard me as the cause of all her problems.
He was very excusably ignorant of the finer details of the case.
Excusably perhaps, none of them really understood the scale of the problem until it was explained to them.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making & accepting apologies
amends
apologetically
apologize
atone for something
atonement
beg
bury
bygone
conciliatory
crawl
crawl back (to someone)idiom
forge ahead
forgive
penance
resolve your differences
shred
sink your differencesidiom
solatium
sorry to bother you
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