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Synonyms for explicable

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Synonyms for explicable

capable of being explained or accounted for

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Antonyms for explicable

capable of being explicated or accounted for

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She stressed that given the long holidays during the Christmas season, it was explicable enough that the bidders were not able to secure all the documents that they shall be needing for the consulting services' auction.
PPP Secretary-General Farhatullah Khan Babar said, The latest order is an explicable departure from the past practice and aimed at leaving female polling stations entirely at the mercy of official polling staff without necessary oversight by the representatives of political parties." PTI Information Secretary Fawad Chaudhry said that traditionally this is how it has been done but if there is no provision in the law for this then there must be no restrictions such as these.
'The latest order is an explicable departure from the past practice and is aimed at leaving female polling stations entirely at the mercy of official polling staff without necessary oversight by the representatives of political parties', he said in a statement today..
Perhaps Mr Abbasi's middle-of-the-night conviction and sentencing is explicable if his political affiliation with the PML-N and the already deeply controversial general election are considered.
Drake, too, released his full-length LP 'More Life,' but due to explicable reasons, it wasn't as solid as those of his closest rivals.
Sentencing Walker to life in prison with a minimum of 17 years and six months, Judge David Stockdale QC said his actions were 'barely explicable.' ".' "This was an almost inexplicable act of extreme mindless violence," he added.
Swansea Crown Court heard that in the early hours of March 21 this year Durham was in his neighbour's flat in Heol Horeb, Porth, when "for no explicable reason" he flew into a rage.
Mian Mohammad through this book and other poetic narration addressed common man through a simple and explicable language.
There will be post-mortems and an official search for a"motive" for this latest gun atrocity, as if something explicable had happened.
But Dershowitz's victory becomes more explicable when one examines the arguments put forward by him and his interlocutor.
A judge said the 30-yearold's behaviour was "explicable but not excusable", and warned lawlessness and anarchy could result from people taking the law into their own hands.
A judge said the 30-year-old's behaviour was "explicable but not excusable" and warned lawlessness and anarchy could result from people taking the law into their own hands.
"An explicable feeling of serenity and peace was there when I stood before the Holy Kaaba, as also in the Prophet's Mosque in Madinah, which is really not possible to express in words," said Khan, who is assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Aligarh Muslim University, India.
It was a craze to rival the Hula-Hoop, and even less explicable. For a mere $3.95, a consumer could buy ...