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excuse oneself



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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 Turley, Charles

Nani no ca no, and nanto xite, cato xite are ways to excuse oneself.

From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Spear, Richard L.

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 Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

One might as well excuse oneself for letting a lunatic escape by the pretext of his lunacy.

From The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.




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