extenuate

The reason would not, I fear, extenuate the crime.

A full acquaintance with the truth may extenuate in my father's eyes, though never justify, the crime I have committed.

I do not want to extenuate this action.

No public figure sought to extenuate the violence.

This persuasion did not extenuate my fears or my danger.

It would avail me nothing to extenuate it now.

Indeed, quick submission may extenuate many things; but to this end it must be quick.

Cleopatra, know We will extenuate rather than enforce.

They were not very sober but not drunk enough to extenuate their obstreperous actions.

He cannot extenuate his behavior by building a cobwebbery of theories that makes sense only in his own mind.

"Your motive, however powerful," said Markham, "cannot extenuate your crime."

If I have known her, You will say she did embrace me as a husband, And so extenuate the forehand sin.

And before a court less arbitrary and more merciful than a martial one, that plea would largely extenuate.

It has been my aim in the course of this narrative to extenuate nothing, nor set down aught in malice.

But sometimes circumstances extenuate.

This reflection may extenuate my faults in their effects, but it must aggravate them in their source.

"To Clara Wieland, "What shall I say to extenuate the misconduct of last night?

"Impostor," repeated Villefort; "certainly, madame, you appear to extenuate some cases, and exaggerate others.

The mentioned engineering and construction measures and implementation of the project in general could extenuate the existing negative processes in the Manych-Chograi ecosystem.

With her broad mantle of charity, she was always seeking to cover up and extenuate the defects of her sister-in-law, though she could not help acknowledging their existence.

My situation evidently affected her more than She ventured to express: But She believed that to extenuate my fault would make me less anxious to repent it.

And that is what England must focus on now - reproducing that form in a one off game, striving to extenuate the positives and banish thoughts of their mediocrity.

But I humbly beg leave to lay before your Excellency some particulars in the circumstance of my guilt, which, I hope, will extenuate it in some measure.

Mr. Shapiro also argued that the heads of the victims had been propped up in the coroner's photographs in such a way as to "extenuate and exaggerate" the throat wounds.