extenuate

How To Use extenuate In A Sentence

• To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine - when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house - Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, and a shower of manna falls for lips that earthly nutriment is to pass no more. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
• Black folks galore, I am sure, were ordering Bombay Sapphires, straight up, lemon twist—dry, veerrry dry, without receiving an extenuated lesson on the authenticity of a martini. A Kettle of Vultures
• Her hair, streaked with gray, was always pulled back in bun, a style that only extenuated the bags and bruises that clung to her eyes. Can I Take My Gun Up To Heaven?
• The circumstances extenuate the crime
• The man you term your deliverer, I have seen; it appears, upon the whole, that he has acted from coercion, and that what share of guilt may attach to him, has been much extenuated by your deliverance. — Magdalen; or, the Penitent of Godstow
• 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.
• He was unable to say anything that might have extenuated his behaviour.
• I would not "set down aught in malice," I would rather "extenuate," yet am I bound in truth to say that Autobiography of a female slave,
• Nothing can extenuate his crime.
• In the mean time, provision was made of many Flambeaux and Torches, not only for the Service of their Light, but to help extenuate those poysonous Particles there gather'd by means of the want of Air. The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen