Crossword-Solution: EXCUSE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Excuse | v. t. | To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. |
| Excuse | v. t. | To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it. |
| Excuse | v. t. | To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon. |
| Excuse | v. t. | To free from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture. |
| Excuse | v. t. | To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for. |
| Excuse | v. t. | The act of excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation. |
| Excuse | v. t. | That which is offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology; as, an excuse for neglect of duty; excuses for delay of payment. |
| Excuse | v. t. | That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault. |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with EXCUSE (5)
Mean while at Table _Eve_ Ministerd naked, and thir flowing cups With pleasant liquors crown’d: O innocence Deserving Paradise! if ever, then, Then had the Sons of God excuse to have bin Enamour’d at that sight; but in those hearts Love unlibidinous reign’d, nor jealousie Was understood, the injur’d Lovers Hell.
Suppose this to be Rhodes, and leap for us.” The Cat and the Cock A CAT caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating him.
The slightest inattention to these was unpardonable, and was visited upon those, under whose care they were placed, with the severest punishment; no excuse could shield them, if the colonel only suspected any want of attention to his horses—a supposition which he frequently indulged, and one which, of course, made the office of old and young Barney a very trying one.
You seem fond of yours in speaking it so decisively, Gabriel Oak.” “You see, it is the only one I shall ever have, and I must make the most of it.” “I always think mine sounds odd and disagreeable.” “I should think you might soon get a new one.” “Mercy!—how many opinions you keep about you concerning other people, Gabriel Oak.” “Well Miss—excuse the words—I thought you would like them.
But before she died she gasped out— “Any excuse will serve a tyrant.” The Dog and the Shadow It happened that a Dog had got a piece of meat and was carrying it home in his mouth to eat it in peace.
Quotes with EXCUSE (3)
Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.
For the first twenty years of my life, I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but eventually, I had to give it up. Throughout the next twenty-two years I lay still and discovered that after a few minutes I could drop off with no problem. Follow seven beers with a couple of scotches and a thimble of good marijuana, and it’s funny how sleep just sort of comes on its own. Often I never even made it to the bed. I’d squat down to pet the cat and wake up on the f…
If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 22 times in crossword archives (1977–2025).