extenuate
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definition
verb
there were extenuating circumstances that caused me to say the things I did
make (guilt or an offense) seem less serious or more forgivable.
drawings of extenuated figures
make (someone) thin.
example
In Florida, you can be held for 21 days before you're released on your own recognizance unless the state has some kind of 'extenuating' circumstances to hold you.
‘Unless there are the most 'extenuating' circumstances, a person convicted of murder can expect no clemency until he or she has served an extremely lengthy sentence,’ Mr Holmes said.
I do think the 'extenuating' circumstances mean that a transfer is necessary.
The two also have a stimulating discussion about whether murder can ever be justified by 'extenuating' circumstances.
A doctrinal synthesis may be a negative guide, eliminating erroneous interpretation, but only in a very 'extenuated' sense would it be a positive aid to interpretation.
She is unconcerned with explanations, alternative interpretations of the evidence (which is flimsy to begin with), 'extenuating' circumstances.
Labour leader Ian Male said last night that the increases could not be morally justified, although there were 'extenuating' circumstances.
There are 'extenuating' circumstances, her ignorance, her naivety, her youth (not a crime, one character tries to reassure her), and another's scheming and deception.
Lawyer Mark Waple, who has handled a number of cases on Fort Bragg, said the recent revelations ‘seem to be more along the lines of 'extenuation' and mitigation rather than any defence.’
Effective in the 2003 fall semester, the university will change the way it handles requests by students for course withdrawal under 'extenuating' circumstances.
there were 'extenuating' circumstances that caused me to say the things I did
If you currently have an approved vacation, contact your CTM, Delivery Manager, Captain to establish alternate dates or justify 'extenuating' circumstances.
On one wall, there is a gallery of grave, 'extenuated' figures that recall El Greco.
Here are some examples of manslaughter arising from 'extenuatory' considerations in fact.
According to provincial law, when a death occurs in Regina a physician or, in 'extenuating' circumstances, a coroner must complete a Medical Certificate of Death with respect to the deceased.
Despite anguished pleas of 'extenuating' circumstances by the desperate father, the school system has so far adamantly insisted that automatic punishments for weapon possession in school are inviolate.
Escudie said ‘a small number’ have been granted emergency extensions by military commanders because of 'extenuating' circumstances, including deaths in the family.
The 'extenuatory' sentencing circumstances are various circumstances synoptically provided by the penal code, represent the actors' public harm and personal danger, and can be applied with extenuation in sentences.
This is a hard doctrine, but one that has undiminished resonance for us in our own era, whose search for 'extenuation' and victimization diminishes rather than ennobles all it touches.
Both outfits 'extenuated' the tans and muscles that had grown over the summer.
During this review, additional information was made available to suggest that there were 'extenuating' circumstances and that the actions of the officer were not representative of his normal conduct.
But you only offer 'extenuation' when you believe you have done wrong, or at least behaved less than ideally, in the first place.
There were no 'extenuating' circumstances nor can the Board imagine any that could have justified his continuance.
Its rather angular and 'extenuated' figures are reminiscent of those of a pyxis in Berkeley which has already been discussed in its relation to our painter.
Orders came down that anyone who was currently out of status, regardless of any pending applications or 'extenuating' circumstances, was to be automatically detained.
Members of the SWC jury said, while commenting on one case, that infanticide is an abominable crime and those who commit it cannot be exonerated, whatever the 'extenuating' circumstances.
Magee argues that Wagner's anti-Semitism, though reprehensible, was not mirrored in his work, but his 'extenuations' have the tone of a capable defense attorney pleading for us to exercise reasonable doubt.
And there are other considerations-the value of the stolen property, the absence of any 'extenuating' circumstances like dire need, or repentance and restoration of property.
Local authorities will plead, in 'extenuation' , the demands of administration and of extra costs, such as provision for special needs pupils.
hunger and poverty are not treated by the courts as 'extenuating' circumstances
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