Excusatory
21excuse — verb ɪk skju:z, ɛk 1》 try or serve to justify (a fault or offence); mitigate. ↘forgive (a fault or offence, or a person committing one). 2》 release from a duty or requirement. ↘(used in polite formulas) allow to leave a room or gathering …
22apologetic — a. 1. Excusatory, exculpatory. 2. Defensive, by way of defence, vindicative, repelling or refuting allegations …
23exculpatory — a. Excusatory, vindicative, vindicatory, exonerative …
24apologetic — adj 1. sorry, regretful, remorseful, contrite, in sackcloth and ashes; expiatory, penitential, penitent, repentant; conscience stricken, conscience smitten, rueful, compunctious; self reproachful, self condemnatory, self condemning, self… …
25exculpatory — adj 1. acquitting, compurgatory, exonerative, exonerating, vindicatory, vindicative, vindicating, exculpating; absolutory, absolvent, absolving, forgiving, pardoning, excusatory, excusing, remissive, remitting. 2. clement, lenient, indulgent,… …
26justificatory — adj 1. substantiative, substantiating, supportive, supporting, upholding, sustaining, justificative, justifying; apologetic, extenuatory, extenuating, mitigative, mitigating, palliative, palliating. 2. exculpatory, exculpating, acquitting,… …
27mitigating — adj extenuating, extenuative, extenuatory, palliative, mitigative, mitigatory; exculpatory, exonerative, justifying, justificatory, justificative, excusatory, vindicating, vindicatory, vindicative; qualifying, modifying, tempering …
28vindicatory — adj 1. exculpatory, exculpating, acquitting, compurgatory, exonerative, exonerating, vindicative, vindicating, absolutory, absolvent, absolving, excusatory, excusing; justificatory, justificative, justifying, extenuatory, extenuating, mitigative …
29apologise — verb 1. defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning rationalize the child s seemingly crazy behavior he rationalized his lack of success • Syn: ↑apologize, ↑excuse, ↑justify, ↑rationalize, ↑rationalise …
30excuse — v. & n. v.tr. 1 attempt to lessen the blame attaching to (a person, act, or fault). 2 (of a fact or circumstance) serve in mitigation of (a person or act). 3 obtain exemption for (a person or oneself). 4 (foll. by from) release (a person) from a… …
