extenuate

How To Use extenuate In A Sentence

• Nor is he the victim of injustice or ingratitude that might extenuate, though not excuse, his later crimes.
• It is true the people at the Cascades had suffered much, and that their wives and children had been murdered before their eyes, but to wreak vengeance on Spencer's unoffending family, who had walked into their settlement under the protection of a friendly alliance, was an unparalleled outrage which nothing can justify or extenuate. She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
• Within months came the 'excuse' of nine-eleven which has been the single means to 'justify' such extenuated ends that must surely be the wetdreams of any Texas oilman since 1950. Straight from the top (Jack Bog's Blog)
• This outrage committed on “the most holy sacrament of the altar,” though but temporary, would not depart from these holy souls, and it seemed to them that it could only be extenuated by a Les Miserables
• Its rather angular and extenuated figures are reminiscent of those of a pyxis in Berkeley which has already been discussed in its relation to our painter.
• It's just extenuated the rules being abrogated by colleges and … these kids are worth $30-$40-$50 million while still 18 years of age. Non-college players dominate NBA Finals rosters
• Mr. Archer, whose criticism of this play is extraordinarily brilliant, does his best to extenuate the stiffness of it. Henrik Ibsen
• Both outfits extenuated the tans and muscles that had grown over the summer.
• Then he drew a second pear, exactly like the former, except that one or two lines were scrawled in the midst of it, which bore somehow a ludicrous resemblance to the eyes, nose, and mouth of a celebrated personage; and, lastly, he drew the exact portrait of Louis Philippe; the well-known toupet, the ample whiskers and jowl were there, neither extenuated nor set down in malice. The Paris Sketch Book
• It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter.