extenuates
- present tense form of extenuate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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“Prince is painfully removed from the youth culture in which he’s participating, which only extenuates the project’s problems,” it stated.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 18, 2015
This act of disobedience differs from the others in one particular which, in the opinion of your Committee, rather aggravates than extenuates the offence.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
In all this the author of "The Warden" and "Barchester Towers" nothing extenuates nor puts down aught in malice.
From Confessions of a Book-Lover by Egan, Maurice Francis
It extenuates some things, maybe; but it sets down naught in malice.
From History of Kershaw's Brigade by Dickert, D. Augustus
He then discusses the bearing of ignorance and error, vincible and invincible, and specially the case wherein an erroneous conscience extenuates.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander
