excusably
— Adverb
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~ in an excusable manner or to an excusable degree; "he was excusably late"
excusatory
— Adjective
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~ offering or expressing apology; "an apologetic note"; "an apologetic manner"
excuse
— Verb
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~ excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with; "excuse someone's behavior"; "She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities"
excuse
— Verb
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~ ask for permission to be released from an engagement
excuse
— Verb
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~ serve as a reason or cause or justification of; "Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work"; "Her recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again"
excuse
— Verb
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~ grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class"
excuse
— Verb
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~ accept an excuse for; "Please excuse my dirty hands"
excuse
— Verb
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~ defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success"
excuse
— Noun
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~ a poor example; "it was an apology for a meal"; "a poor excuse for an automobile"
excuse
— Noun
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~ a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.; "he kept finding excuses to stay"; "every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job"; "his transparent self-justification was unacceptable"
excuse
— Noun
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~ a note explaining an absence; "he had to get his mother to write an excuse for him"
excused
— Adjective
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~ granted exemption; "one of the excused jurors planned to write a book"
excuser
— Noun
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~ a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense
exec
— Noun
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~ the chief executive department of the United States government
execrable
— Adjective
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~ unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
execrable
— Adjective
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~ of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
execrable
— Adjective
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~ deserving a curse; "her damnable pride"
execrate
— Verb
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~ curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment
execrate
— Verb
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~ find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"
execration
— Noun
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~ the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated