(v. t.) To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit.
(v. t.) To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it.
(v. t.) To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon.
(v. t.) To free from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture.
(v. t.) To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.
(v. t.) The act of excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation.
(v. t.) That which is offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology; as, an excuse for neglect of duty; excuses for delay of payment.
(v. t.) That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault.
Example Sentences:
(1) As he told us: 'Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.'
(2) We need to stop making excuses for them: But it is up to the state to close the loopholes Yes, the state must work continually to tighten and simplify the tax regime, which is a deliberate mess keeping an entire industry of accounting firms and tax lawyers fed.
(3) "With hindsight," he writes, "it was a trumped-up excuse for radical activism for its own sake."
(4) The Frenchman has been excused from duty at Everton on Saturday on compassionate grounds and the club have put no time frame on his possible return.
(5) Becton’s lawyer, Hannah Stroud, told a separate news conference that stress was no excuse for Casebolt’s actions and “the manner in which Ms Becton was treated was excessive, inappropriate and without cause” and a civil rights violation.
(6) Well, Machado put those skills on display on Sunday, and this is an excuse to bring you his ridiculous play against the Yankees.
(7) This prompted an angry response from the bill's sponsors who accused opponents of using border security as an excuse to block any immigration reform.
(8) This lovely coastal route also gives you an excuse to hop on the Skye ferry, which plies its way over the narrows to Kylerhea from the start of this walk.
(9) I think the French manager told him ‘it’s very difficult to watch you when you’re not playing for PSG’ – he hasn’t got that excuse now.” Palace are also well worth watching.
(10) I'm not a believer, and my only problem with artistic licence is when the phrase is used as an excuse to oversimplify a work to improve its marketability.
(11) Nothing in this context can be soft-pedalled and excused.
(12) He continues: “And a ‘no excuses’ culture where excellence is the norm.” Police were called by a member of the public shortly after 11am after reports of a disturbance outside the school in George V Avenue, where a number of parents and pupils had gathered.
(13) The current IRS controversy does not excuse sham political organizations masquerading as social welfare organizations, and shines a light on the critical need for campaign spending disclosure legislation.
(14) David Winnick, the MP for Walsall North, said: "None of [May's] excuses can explain away the sheer incompetence and shambles that have occurred on her watch."
(15) Sessions are scheduled regularly throughout the year and take place outside the hospital; interns are excused from their service responsibilities for the duration of the meeting.
(16) "There is no excuse to cut back on services that patients depend on.
(17) His team had been working on a protest-themed game for the past two years, and the frenzy surrounding Occupy Central gave them an excuse to release a prototype.
(18) After years of on-and-off e-dating, in which I've met 150-200 women, fallen in love with one and invented extravagant excuses to extricate myself from awkward encounters with countless others, you might think I'd be tired of it all.
(19) "We are always followed by a crowd of people – not journalists, but people who are following us and track our every move, and look for any excuse to detain us."
(20) The bar on religious weddings was meant to reassure the faithful, but the Church of England has twisted the weird and novel distinction between religious and secular marriages into an excuse to oppose the whole reform , while it is left to Labour's Yvette Cooper to speak for liberal Jews and Quakers who resent the continuing bar on them offering ceremonial equality.
Recuse
Definition:
(v. t.) To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause.
Example Sentences:
(1) And we haven’t asked for a recusal, which we may do.
(2) Asked point blank if Mueller should recuse himself from the Russia investigation, Trump said: “Well, he’s very, very good friends with Comey, which is very bothersome.
(3) The prime minister’s comments suggest the government is prepared to consider appointing a replacement if Heydon accepts requests from unions to recuse himself on the grounds of apprehended bias.
(4) The intervention by Miller's special adviser prompted Dr Evan Harris, the former Liberal Democrat MP who is a leading figure in the Hacked Off campaign, to call for Miller to recuse herself from the Leveson negotiations.
(5) Trump said in an interview published on Wednesday that he regretted appointing him after Sessions recused himself from investigations into links with the Trump campaign and Russia.
(6) Yeo, a director of GB Railfreight's parent company Eurotunnel, recused himself from his duties as chairman when Smith gave evidence, but he told the Insight team: "I was able to tell him in advance what he should say."
(7) Attorney general Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation last week after it was found that, under oath, he had failed to disclose meetings last year with Russia’s ambassador.
(8) The proper way for dealing with any question of bias, including apprehended bias, is to make an application for the commissioner to recuse himself, and for the commissioner to consider and rule on the application.” The clerk of the Senate, Rosemary Laing, has provided advice to Wong about the upper house’s power to address the governor general.
(9) Judge Carol Patricia Flores was recently reinstated to the case after being recused from it in February 2012.
(10) Recommending director Comey’s firing would seem to be a violation of his recusal, and attorney general Sessions needs to answer for that,” the Democratic Senate leader, Chuck Schumer, said in a statement after Sessions’ Senate appearance was confirmed on Monday.
(11) He said: “This investigation’s scope will go wherever the intelligence leads it, so it is absolutely crucial that every day we spend trying to separate fact from fiction and to find some intelligence thread that sends us to the factual side of all the names and all the places that you in this room have written about.” The bipartisan display was notably different from the ongoing strife at the House intelligence committee, where Democrats have called on chairman Devin Nunes to recuse himself over his close relationship with the White House.
(12) That’s what the recusal is about, however narrow it is.
(13) And that’s not something that was looked at.” Already Comey’s nominal boss, the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has had to recuse himself from any inquiry into the Trump-Russia question.
(14) Dr Evan Harris, the former Lib Dem MP and associate director of Hacked Off, which represents victims of press intrusion, indicated at a breakfast event this morning that he thought Miller should "recuse" herself in light of newspaper's story headlined "The minister and a warning to the Telegraph before expenses story".
(15) Sessions announced his recusal from the investigation in March, under pressure from revelations of previously undisclosed meetings with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
(16) Jeremy Paxman, Newsnight's best-known presenter, and Kirsty Wark, another programme veteran, and Helen Boaden, the BBC's "recused" director of news, are among those who have given evidence to Pollard, as have the reporter and producer at the centre of the storm about the axed Savile film – Liz MacKean and Meirion Jones.
(17) Nixon also entertained claims that McCulloch should recuse himself from the grand jury case on Brown’s shooting due to an appearance of pro-police bias, saying that the prosecutor might do so.
(18) Ofcom also said that Ed Richards, its chief executive, would not be formally recusing himself from any decisions regarding Newsnight - despite speculation that the regulator could again become a candidate for the vacant BBC director generalship.
(19) Asked by a reporter during an event in Richmond, Virginia, Sessions replied : “The answer is no.” Sessions has recused himself from any investigations involving the president and the transition, including an inquiry into charges that Russia interfered in the US presidential election to undermine Trump’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
(20) And, Ginsburg asked the first question at argument, settling any question of recusal with a firm “no way” from the Notorious RBG .