Explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault.
A defense to a criminal or civil charge wherein the accused party admits to doing acts for which legal consequences would normally be appropriate, but asserts that special circumstances relieve that party of culpability for having done those acts.
An example of something that is substandard or of inferior quality.
To provide an excuse for; to explain, with the aim of alleviating guilt or negative judgement.
To forgive; to pardon.
To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.
To allow to leave, or release from any obligation.
a negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement, denial, refusal, or disapproval
a vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition
vehement rejection of truthfulness
disgust
mild disapproval
Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives.
not
Used idiomatically before certain other adjectives.
Not any.
Hardly any.
Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.
Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something).
Used to show disagreement, negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition.
Used together with an affirmative word or phrase to show agreement.
Used to show agreement with a negative question.
not, does not, do not, etc.
without
like