Excusing is valid Scrabble Word

Is excusing a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is excusing valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
18 points in Scrabble
22 points in WWF

Definitions for EXCUSING 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 EXCUSING

excuse15 excused17 excuses16 excusive20

How to use EXCUSING in a sentence

And then they burst into a hearty laugh, gayly excusing themselves.
Part of the suppressed verses shall here be given as a gratification of private feeling, which the well-disposed reader will find no difficulty in excusing.
On the afternoon of the day before her departure Gianluca came, walking with difficulty and excusing himself for bringing his stick with him into the drawing-room.
He adored his mother with the passion of an only and spoiled child, but he admired the captain no less, excusing every fault that he might commit.
Now I will say no more, lest I should seem to be excusing myself for something which does not exist, and which I am utterly unable to imagine.
It is at least remarkable that German newspapers are daily excusing the failure of their offensive to secure all its objectives.
Excusing the time I was in Pine Bluff and Little Rock I farmed.
Searle wrote nearly every day to Beth, excusing his absence, relating his success, and declaring the increase of his love.
Miss Ladd has given her every opportunity of explaining and excusing herself, and has produced no impression.
He swept his hand round, and excusing themselves to their guests, obediently they retired.

And in thus excusing his death, his contemporaries did him scant justice.
He kept excusing himself from the table to open and close windows and doors, to hang over her chair so as to feel for himself if the wind touched her.
The strife of thought, accusing and excusing, began afresh, and gathered fierceness.
He went to bed, building castles in the air, excusing Madame Jules by some romantic fiction in which he did not believe.
Custis, finding she was observed, took a sip from her glass also, excusing herself on the ground of a recent headache from drinking heartily.
He had not only been untrue to her, but, worse than that, had been false in excusing his untruth.
Kate Vavasor, in writing to her cousin Alice, felt some little difficulty in excusing herself for remaining in Norfolk with Mrs.
Excusing himself to the angel, he rushed over to his former earthly friend and greeted him with warmth and cordiality.
I told my young friends to carry on as if nothing had happened, and excusing myself, said I would come back in a few minutes.
They joined in her laugh, each excusing himself by good-natured abuse of the other.
In desperation she had to take what offered, excusing herself to herself with every word she spoke.
After this I enjoyed myself very well for a few days, excusing my prank with the notion that it was a vacation.
Your unspoken words have been more eloquent than any vows your lips could coin, and I know what is in your heart, else my boldness would have been beyond excusing.
She was homesick at first, and that was the cause of her coldness, they said, excusing her in their kind hearts, and admiring her as something far superior to themselves.
Excusing himself, Dick darted over to get his mail.
Was she really unwell? Or had she been excusing herself! Was she an angel? He wanted to see her again in order to judge for himself whether she was an angel.
But let me pursue my purpose of excusing my long silence.
All this was written upon the tomb of Sir Patrise in excusing of the queen.
He blamed the Ministry for excusing the measure on financial grounds.
Seating himself in his chair General Bazain, after courteously excusing himself, closed his eyes as though to sleep.
Graham called to his son, and excusing himself from Carrie, he did not again return to her until it was time to go home.
Winscombe had pushed back his chair, excusing himself in the pressure of necessary preparations.
Excusing himself from his guests, Harry Cresswell came into the office.
Excusing myself, I took her in charge and we moved gaily off.
That was a comfortable way of excusing certain surrenderings to her ideas.
We have a habit, in everyday life, of excusing the eccentricities of a friend or an enemy by the reflection that he is, after all, as God made him.
The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

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