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The answer EXCUSE has 164 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of excuse in various dictionaries:
noun - a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
noun - a note explaining an absence
noun - a poor example
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| serve as a reason or cause or justification of |
| a note explaining an absence |
| a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. |
| excuse, overlook, or make allowances for be lenient with |
| a poor example |
| grant exemption or release to |
| to give false reasons why you cannot do something: |
| a letter from a doctor saying that someone is too ill to go to work |
| the explanation given for bad behavior, absence, etc.: |
| To excuse someone from an activity is to give that person permission to stop doing it or not do it: |
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In jurisprudence, an excuse is a defense to criminal charges that is distinct from an exculpation. Justification and excuse are different defenses in a criminal case (See Justification and excuse). Exculpation is a related concept which reduces or extinguishes a person's culpability and therefore a person's liability to pay compensation to the victim of a tort in the civil law. * The "excuse" provides a mitigating factor for a group of persons sharing a common characteristic. Justification, as in justifiable homicide, vindicates or shows the justice. Thus, society approves of the purpose or motives underpinning some actions or the consequences flowing from them (see Robinson), and distinguishes those where the behavior cannot be approved but some excuse may be found in the characteristics of the defendant, e.g. that the accused was a serving police officer or suffering from a mental illness. Thus, a justification describes the quality of the act, whereas an excuse relates to the status o |