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View definitions for forgiving

forgiving

adjective as in sparing

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Instead she turned her focus on “everyone who gave me the grace to make mistakes and figure it out and also to be forgiving with myself through that,” she said.

So far, he said, customers have been forgiving.

Decades ago, movie audiences were eminently more forgiving when it came to filmmakers’ claims about needing to reshape history to accommodate the silver screen.

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“We should be stomping on their heads for what they did, but Allah is forgiving — and so are we.”

He curses out Brian, then responds to Alice's suggestion that forgiving Louis may help him by doing that — then in the next breath, making Louis promise to cut ties with his daughter.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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