excuse
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ex·cused, ex·cus·ing.
- : to regard or judge with forgiveness or indulgence; pardon or forgive; overlook: Excuse his bad manners.
- : to offer an apology for; seek to remove the blame of: He excused his absence by saying that he was ill.
- : to serve as an apology or justification for; justify: Ignorance of the law excuses no one.
- : to release from an obligation or duty: to be excused from jury duty.
- : to seek or obtain exemption or release for: to excuse oneself from a meeting.
- : to refrain from exacting; remit; dispense with: to excuse a debt.
- : to allow to leave: If you'll excuse me, I have to make a telephone call.
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- : an explanation offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or for release from an obligation, promise, etc.: His excuse for being late was unacceptable.
- : a ground or reason for excusing or being excused: Ignorance is no excuse.
- : the act of excusing someone or something.
- : a pretext or subterfuge: He uses his poor health as an excuse for evading all responsibility.
- : an inferior or inadequate specimen of something specified: That coward is barely an excuse for a man. Her latest effort is a poor excuse for a novel.
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Traditional absentee excuses include military deployments or illness.
In fact, Texas is one of only six remaining states that are using strict lists of excuses to decide who can vote by mail this year.
Without broader change, Markowitz argued, the city will probably just find another law to use as an excuse to punish speech they don’t like.
That takes care of those five and whatever excuses might be connected to how they were obtained and who did what to obtain them.
If your organization is smaller, don’t use the small sample size as an excuse to avoid this work.
Whatever the excuse, in 2008 we were all subjected to Celebrity Apprentice.
Augustus, also known as Augustus the Strong, was a party-boy, and loved any excuse to celebrate.
This same fear has recently resurfaced as the number one excuse for blocking a proposed subway through Beverly Hills.
But since the government has now permitted the River God to leave the U.K., that excuse can no longer wash.
In it, Weber suggested approaching a woman with lines like: “Excuse me, but you look beautiful.”
One of the simplest of these childish tricks is the invention of an excuse for not instantly obeying a command, as "Come here!"
Could he be conscious of all this, and not excuse the unsteady youth—accuse himself?
I must admit that there is some excuse for you; the pearl of Andalusia is undoubtedly ravissante.
"A woman's particular reason is a man's feeble excuse," murmured Sir Lucien rudely.
Now she knew why her expected guest had not come last night, or remembered to send an excuse.