excuse oneself
Example Sentences
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The easy solution is to excuse oneself from the table and talk to a manager out of view.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2015
I came to the conclusion that had I won I should have been rather pleased with myself, it is so easy to excuse oneself for winning money, while losing it seems to be foolishly immoral.
From Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate by Charles Turley
To excuse oneself of a sin one has committed, belongs to the third species, since by so doing a man ascribes to himself the good of innocence which he has not.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
But it was not easy to excuse oneself to Jeremy; his discernments were keen.
From All Men are Ghosts by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks
One might as well excuse oneself for letting a lunatic escape by the pretext of his lunacy.
From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward
