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excusingverbpresent participle of excuse to dismiss as of little importancemore often than not, voters are willing to excuse a candidate's youthful indiscretion blinking (at), brushing (aside or off), condoning, discounting, disregarding, forgiving, glossing (over), glozing (over), ignoring, overlooking, overpassing, papering over, pardoning, passing over, remitting, shrugging off, whitewashing, winking (at) explaining, justifying, rationalizingabsolving, acquitting, clearing, exculpating, exonerating, vindicatingwaiving, waving (aside or off) closing one's eyes to, forgiving and forgetting heeding, marking, minding, noting, objecting (to) to be an acceptable reason forhaving a female passenger in labor will generally excuse a little disregard for the speed limit justifying accounting (for), alibiing, explaining, explaining away, rationalizingbrushing (aside or off), condoning, disregarding, forgiving, glossing (over), glozing (over), ignoring, pardoning, passing over, remitting, shrugging off, winking (at) to make (something) seem less bad by offering excuseshe's always excusing his chronic lying by claiming that everybody lies deodorizing, explaining away, extenuating, glossing (over), glozing (over), palliating, whitewashing sugarcoating, varnishingapologizing, atoning, confessingaccounting (for), explaining, justifying, rationalizingminimizing, playing down, soft-pedalingalleviating, easing, lessening, lightening, mitigating, moderating, softening, temperingabsolving, acquitting, clearing, exculpating, exonerating, vindicating |