'excusable' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are trying to describe an action or behavior that might be forgiven or pardoned due to extenuating circumstances. For example: "His lateness was excusable since he had gotten stuck in traffic on his way to the meeting."
Deserving to be forgiven may hinge, in turn, on whether the wrongful deed was partly excusable (a complete excuse or justification would leave nothing to be forgiven) or whether the wrongdoer displays guilt or remorse (Murphy and Hampton, 1988).
This tends to collapse the distinction since what is justified needs no excuse and the unjustifiable is sometimes excusable.
'It doesn't bother me at all!' Still, among the bickering, there were some interesting points of view, some occasions when red-light jumping might arguably be excusable.
Its rejection of the Kyoto targets in their present form is not merely excusable, it is right.
In a concurring opinion, Elena Kagan and Ruth Bader Ginsburg warn that while the majority interpreted Mr Darisse's mistake as a reasonable mistake, other officers in other cases should not assume that their flubs are excusable.
But this is perhaps excusable, even appropriate, for a man whose character—so far as one can judge from the pictures themselves seems so reticent, even deliberately evasive.
The requirement for identity papers will not apply for "excusable motives", such as a refusal by the home country to provide them, or if the applicant shows evidence of persecution at home.
EXPERIENCES at the annual office party generally fall into one of three categories: one goes and has a relatively enjoyable time; one goes and grits one's teeth until going home is socially excusable; or one goes and wakes the next morning with a terrible headache and a nagging feeling of dread.
Altogether, it looks as though Scottish companies are paying about £190m a year more for water than their counterparts in England.All that might be excusable if the aquacrats were doing much better with the extra money.
Since then, prices have reached for the stars of the modern world, exceeding 30,000 yuan in that part of Beijing.China's unruly property market was once dubbed, with excusable hyperbole, the "most important sector in the entire global economy" by Jonathan Anderson, then at UBS, another Swiss bank.
The PFI, he said, offered additional private money to finance more public investment.This justification is a poor one, hardly excusable even when made to party delegates.
