excuse
verb (used with object)
to regard or judge with forgiveness or indulgence; pardon or forgive; overlook (a fault, error, etc.).
self-excuse
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a word derived from
excuse.
Example Sentences
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"I hardly know the girl," she pleaded in self-excuse to her injured conscience.
From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various
But he was ashamed to do so, for he felt it was only a phrase of self-excuse, designed to allay the qualms of conscience.
From Tales of Two Countries by William Archer
“They’ll wither in a few days now,” she said, in self-excuse; “and anyhow 229 I’ll leave most of them.”
From The Dust Flower by Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren) Kline
"Don't indulge in the fatal folly of self-excuse."
From The Price She Paid by David Graham Phillips
Dumont's father and mother charged against Ann Arbor that which they might have charged against their own alternations of tyranny and license, had they not been humanly lenient in self-excuse.
From The Cost by David Graham Phillips
