extenuation

Example Sentences

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Asked about it, he dodged and weaved, searching for extenuation.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2016

Committee chair Dianne Feinstein appears to offer some extenuation when she reminds us in the report's preamble of the shock and "pervasive fear" felt after 9/11.

From Chicago Tribune • Dec. 11, 2014

Even then, some reporters' questions suggested that, if Weiner's conduct could be defined as an illness, some further extenuation might be available.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2013

Typesetters are not expected to know anything; but we employ the best talent that money and good prices can command for proofreaders, and there is nothing to be said in extenuation of their shortcomings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Apart from a rather riotous and bad bringing up, which may be pleaded in extenuation, it is not possible to waste much sympathy over John Thurtell. 

From The Life of George Borrow by Shorter, Clement K.