exculpation
- n a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
- n the act of freeing from guilt or blame
- The film, another Jack Benny performance of his standard screen personality, a garrulous, cigar-chewing gull ready to be talked into anything once, is almost an exculpation in .
- Thus closed a famed case with what those hostile to Governor Small termed the acquisition of perhaps the most expensive coat of whitewash known in the annals of exculpation.
- Thus, exculpation, if one seeks it.