excuse
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- n a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
he kept finding excuses to stay - n a note explaining an absence
he had to get his mother to write an excuse for him - n a poor example
a poor excuse for an automobile - v accept an excuse for
Please excuse my dirty hands - v grant exemption or release to
Please excuse me from this class - v serve as a reason or cause or justification of
Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work - v defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- v ask for permission to be released from an engagement
- v excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with
excuse someone's behavior
- It's why he doesn't accept victimization as an excuse for failure, criminality or self-pity.
- That the job was a small one not requiring a full-bore investigation is no excuse.
- He points out that Chagra's own lawyer had requested that Wood excuse himself from the case, citing bias, but Wood refused.