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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to explain away, such as: justify, deliberate, elucidate, excise, excuse, and extenuate.
How to use explain away in a sentence
The adherents of the old theology made strenuous efforts to explain away this unwelcome circumstance.
MAN AND HIS ANCESTORCHARLES MORRISI have endeavoured to explain away the strange orthography, and I have conjecturally supplied the last line.
NOTES AND QUERIES, NUMBER 69, FEBRUARY 22, 1851VARIOUSFirst, the Eleate states the opinion which perplexes him, and which he is anxious either to refute or to explain away.
PLATO AND THE OTHER COMPANIONS OF SOKRATES, 3RD ED. VOLUME III (OF 4)GEORGE GROTEChristians like Dr. Abbott explain away the Resurrection as no physical fact, but a spiritual conception.
FLOWERS OF FREETHOUGHTGEORGE W. FOOTEHolland, in trying to explain away the inconsistencies of this fabrication, repeatedly blunders.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: WAS HE A CHRISTIAN?JOHN B. REMSBURGWilhelmine listened in silence; she knew that his accusation was extremely serious, and the facts most difficult to explain away.
A GERMAN POMPADOURMARIE HAYNo honest person hesitates to explain away incriminating circumstances.
THE SUBSTITUTE PRISONERMAX MARCINIt is impossible to see how Mr. Spencer, any more than other people, can explain away the existence of pain and evil.
THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW, VOLUME 36, NOVEMBER 1879VARIOUSShe would again appear side by side with Webster to explain away another gratuitous death.
LADY LILITHSTEPHEN MCKENNAThese are facts that no amount of words can cover, no speeches explain away.
AVERAGE AMERICANSTHEODORE ROOSEVELTWORDS RELATED TO EXPLAIN AWAY
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