extenuate

synonyms for extenuate

See also synonyms for: extenuating extenuative

On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to extenuate, such as: decrease, diminish, downplay, excuse, justify, and minimize.

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In general, getting in touch with someone at Etsy to resolve problems or explain extenuating circumstances feels harder than ever.
Why Thousands of Etsy’s Sellers, Including Me, Are On Strike | Megan Kirby | April 14, 2022 | Time
Kolker chose his contexts very carefully and omitted many extenuating facts on Dorland’s side, and subsequent revelations complicated the narrative he presented.
Is Jeremy Strong the bad art friend? | Aja Romano | December 17, 2021 | Vox
They attempted to extenuate their crimes by the hardships they had suffered, but in vain.
The History of Tasmania , Volume II (of 2) | John West

This reflection may extenuate my faults in their effects, but it must aggravate them in their source.
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete | Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Lords' committee extenuate the presumption that either knights or burgesses sat in any of these parliaments.
View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 (of 3) | Henry Hallam
If some dozen of the conniving deputies had been sent there, Warden Tapp might have had less to extenuate.
The Incendiary | W. A. (William Augustine) Leahy
But whether he is to be believed or not, the fact that four of the prisoners went down in irons is impossible to extenuate.
Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora | Edward Edwards

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