She neither denied nor extenuated the crime, and she acknowledged it to have been premeditated.
There are things which cannot be extenuated however we may try to palliate them.
No defect is extenuated, nor is there any patriotic exaggeration of merits.
Again, you say I not only extenuated the conduct of the obstructionists, but justified it.
Weakened, exhausted, extenuated as he is, how can he endure it?
Neither are any of his faults, in the unfair sense, extenuated.
I have not extenuated his faults, to the best of my knowledge.
And yet I extenuated, for I called for another letter from her.
His appeal was pathetic; it was he who was the culprit—he who extenuated and pleaded.
I have nothing "extenuated, and have set down nought in malice."
