Sentence example with the word 'extenuation'

extenuation

Definition n. a partial excuse to mitigate censure

Last update: October 18, 2015


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It may, however, be pleaded in extenuation that he is professedly a transcriber, and, if his story be correct, a transcriber in peculiarly unfavourable circumstances.   [Please select]

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Archer, as if the fact were scarcely an extenuation; and Mrs.   [Please select]

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"He attacked me like the low ruffian that he is," pleaded Halbert, in extenuation.   [Please select]

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"She's very nice," the mother answered, with vague extenuation in her tone.   [Please select]

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"Have any of you prisoners anything to say in extenuation of your actions."   [Please select]

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She felt it necessary to say something in extenuation.   [Please select]

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All we can say in extenuation is that it was powerless.   [Please select]

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Maylie, nor Harry, nor Rose (who all came in together), could offer a word in extenuation.   [Please select]

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But," he set forth, in extenuation, "it's not the custom of the country, and the fact that it isn't has its good significance, as well as its bad.   [Please select]

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"But he said the money was worth that to him," she said to herself in extenuation, "and he's goin' to get two thousand dollars a year."'   [Please select]

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