extenuating
adjective
serving to make a fault, offense, etc., appear less serious.
unextenuating
-
a word derived from
extenuating.
Example Sentences
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So he spoke, puffing his cigarette, with his conscious but unextenuating eyes fixed on his host.
From Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales by Henry James
Gould, the unextenuating likenesses of “Ape,” and “Spy,” and “Max,” the 333 subtle conceits of Mr Linley Sambourne, the whimsicalities of Mr E.T.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
