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exculpation
noun as in clearing from accusation
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This lack of empathy revealed a man focused only on his own exculpation.
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To get a letter of exculpation, O’Brien agrees to take a lie-detector test.
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But his feeble attempts at exculpation were not working.
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It was not sworn testimony, but an autobiography with all the self-flattery and exculpation associated with that genre.
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Less convincing are her strained exculpations for Roxelana, insisting that she was not behind various unsavory murders that benefited her.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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