excusing

Speech parts

1. excusing - Noun

2. excusing - Verb

Meaning

of Excuse

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

release defense easy explain defend releasing justify clearing relieve exempt tolerant pardon excuse forgive freeing
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Antonyms

accusing forbidding punishing including avenging blaming
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Examples

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. Molière

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men. Henry David Thoreau

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. William Shakespeare

Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane. Michael Chertoff

We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere. Elizabeth Berkley

Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves. English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

excuselessness excusement excuser excusingly excusive excuss