Extenuating is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXTENUATING in dictionary:

VERB:
• (of a factor or situation) acting in mitigation to lessen the seriousness of guilt or an offence
• make (someone) thin
NOUN:
• the act of excusing
ADJECTIVE:
• excusing
• partially excusing or justifying
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a archaic; to make light of; to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of by making partial excuses; mitigate c obsolete; disparage

Words related to EXTENUATING

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Words that contain EXTENUATING

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How to use EXTENUATING in a sentence

• But in order to assuage his own conscience he grants him extenuating circumstances, which seem a concession of justice, but are, in reality, a denial of justice.
• This is not done today, and for this reason the idea of extenuating circumstances constitutes a denial of justice.
• But before we saddle the consuming public with the blame, we must bear in mind the following extenuating circumstances.
• Hamilton, indeed, making the extraordinary declaration that such a crime had extenuating circumstances when love was at stake.
• Eddy and others pleaded extenuating circumstances and proposed that the accused should leave the camp.
• There were extenuating circumstances for Rochester.
• There were no extenuating circumstances for little Jane.
• This message is the only extenuating circumstance in the whole guilty affair.
• In this ethical code there are no extenuating circumstances.
• However, a sweet and slightly aromatic taste that follows the first impression is an extenuating circumstance.
• There was no sort of doubt of his guilt, and the jury so found, but, having regard to certain extenuating circumstances, they recommended him to mercy.
• Let me, without extenuating, be brief over my act of folly.
• In the case of this Mexican, there were extenuating circumstances which, if they did not warrant such a cruel act, yet they rendered him somewhat excusable.
• There is not one extenuating circumstance to temper the indignation of him who believes in justice and humanity.
• No explanation or extenuating circumstances can be attempted in that deep confusion.
• She did not know whether the men believed it, but she saw by their faces they were in no mood to admit extenuating circumstances.
• If Henry Francis yielded to temptation there were extenuating circumstances.
• The judge, in addressing the prisoner, said he had been unable to discover any extenuating circumstances in the case.
• He felt that some one ought to know these facts about himself, these extenuating circumstances, in case of trouble.
• We are not blind to the extenuating circumstances that are adduced for Rationalism.
• But he did it faithfully, extenuating nothing, and entreating her, as she loved him, to send the money by return of post.
• But his apologists can find no extenuating circumstances for his mad conduct in stirring up bands of ruffians at Buffalo and other places on the frontier to invade the province.
• Before the inquiry progressed, the attorney for the plaintiff apologized to the court, pleading extenuating circumstances in the offense offered to his client.
• Knowing that the breach of discipline had been attended with many extenuating circumstances, some of us endeavoured to secure his pardon.
• She practised the detection of extenuating circumstances as one might practise a fine art.
• So natural is it for men to be over-eloquent in extenuating their own demerit.
• Following these two revolutionists, men found sufficient audacity to wear their own hair, and powder was introduced as an extenuating circumstance.
• This would be an extenuating circumstance, and was, we may remember, the case with Barkilphedro.
• Paul is a saint only with extenuating circumstances.
• Of course there had been extenuating circumstances.
• That is the one extenuating circumstance of my villainy.
• Love is the one extenuating circumstance which He will recognize and pass.
• It is much more truly an extenuating circumstance than the majority of pleas which receive the name.
• This was an extenuating circumstance, and excuses Flannery, but the professor, being a foreigner, could not see the fine point of the distinction, and was angry.

Similar words containing TENUAT without suffix ing and without prefix ex

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