Excuses is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXCUSES in dictionary:

VERB:
• EXCUSE, to free from blame or guilt
• seek to lessen the blame attaching to (a fault or offence); try to justify
• forgive (someone) for a fault or offence
• overlook or make allowances for
• (of a fact) serve to mitigate (a person or act)
• release (someone) from a duty or requirement
• (used in polite formulas) allow (someone) to leave a room or gathering
• say politely that one is leaving
• (used by school pupils) be allowed to leave the room, especially to go to the toilet
NOUN:
• a reason or explanation given to justify a fault or offence
• a reason put forward to conceal the real reason for an action; a pretext
• a note written by a doctor or parent excusing a pupil from school.
• a poor or inadequate example of
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to apologize for

Words related to EXCUSES

excuse15 excused17 excusing18

How to use EXCUSES in a sentence

• After all excuses and explanations are made, the deeds remain.
• At parting he and his wife were as deeply moved as we, and when I began to make excuses for being unable to pay the rent, she at once prevented me from speaking another word.
• There are excuses that we owe to ourselves, and we have a right to expect justice even from our own consciences.
• He has arranged to come twice, but on each occasion, at the last moment, he has made excuses.
• The papers also gave the two official excuses offered by the Germans for the destruction of the church.
• Excuses had seemed so much less important when temptation was plucking at his sleeve that almost any reason had seemed good enough.
• I had made so many excuses, in past years, when I received invitations from my uncle, that I was really ashamed to plead engagements in London again.
• To this end, I made frequent excuses for spending my time in the forecastle among the men, pretending I found the companionship in the cabin irksome.
• But there is neither necessity nor intention to offer excuses.
• Marvelous excuses were invented for their appearance at the cabin in the flat.
• I did not notice this then, but I see it all now, just as I hear again the excuses you gave for not filling your glasses as the bottle went round.
• But Lady Glencora had made for herself excuses which were not altogether untrue.
• One of the excuses mentioned was that the man invited had bought a piece of ground, and had to look at it.
• Perhaps she could have put him off with excuses, but that had not occurred to her.
• Not that Willy Cameron made any excuses to himself.
• He made his excuses in the sweetest manner, but still seriously.
• Everybody confused, apologetic, repeating the same silly excuses over and over, three or four times.
• When they became too obvious to ignore, I searched for excuses.
• They stood there a while, talking in low tones and looking for excuses to linger, when one of the older men moved a little and held up a warning hand.
• In almost every instance where you meet any sign of intelligence, excuses and explanations are freely made, and these explanations fully justify their points of view.
• Worse still and more significant, he began to find excuses for staying home from school.
• No excuses, no personal feelings, no appeals to the suffering which might be brought upon the innocent, were permitted to interfere with the execution of his duty.
• It is easy to contrive excuses for the inaction of the President, and it is no new thing to find the demands of strategy sacrificed to political expediency.
• No matter what excuses may be offered in our behalf we know in our own minds that we are to blame.
• At first he tried to plead his inability, but no one would listen to his excuses.
• I long to make apologies, excuses, to urge something for myself.
• I came here, not to offer excuses, but to state the facts.
• And then he had made his excuses to his party and watched the coaches drive away, and had gone back to seek John Oxon.
• If I were a person who sought for excuses, I might say that I have robbed my relatives for the cause of the patriot.
• Weatherley was very much annoyed with us and we had to make excuses to the doctor.

Similar words containing CUSE without suffix s and without prefix ex

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