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Meanings of alibi in English
Digital television channel broadcasting in the United Kingdom.
Related terms
A defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
Synonyms
Examples for "excuse"
Examples for "excuse"
1
Weather was the first excuse given, although the sky was perfectly clear.
2
Of course, this recognition is not to excuse terrorism in any way.
3
The Taoiseach said yesterday that there was no excuse for the violence.
4
Chang was right, and the excuse of immediate danger no longer applied.
5
Waits said he should not need to excuse himself from the case.
1
The following morning they discovered the final self-exculpation next to his body.
2
They made habit and bad example almost a sufficient exculpation from crime.
3
Nothing like the need for self-exculpation to get your blood pressure up.
4
It cannot affect him; but these two shall hear your exculpation of him.
5
She fought on the consuming fire to have her exculpation heard.
1
And the speech was long on self-justification on phone tapping and Iraq.
2
He might have answered her in kind, but self-justification passed his power.
3
The second faction against our Mother Tongue springs from a malicious self-justification.
4
THAT was what came of my intended self-justification and plea for mercy!
5
Why, I shall be forced, in self-justification, to carry through the farce!'
Usage of alibi in English
1
I do hope to make the alibi a fact in truth, however.
2
But of course the journey's true purpose was to arrange an alibi.
3
But by January 1987 he was forced to seek a new alibi.
4
Of course, in turn she provided an alibi for Fu, as well.
5
And I don't really know why he'd need an alibi for Emerald.
6
On the morning of the crime he can surely prove an alibi.
7
And maybe still was in their fevered minds; General Murphy's alibi notwithstanding.
8
The disarmament alibi for the war on Iraq is now irrelevant, apparently.
9
He has a cast-iron alibi but was obviously able to direct operations.
10
He has a cast-iron alibi, but obviously was able to direct operations.
11
More likely they were a ways back from it, building an alibi.
12
In doing so, however, he was not providing himself with an alibi.
13
I myself will state at once that I have no valid alibi.
14
The Fish Man still had no alibi for that period of time.
15
Now once in his life he wished he could prove an alibi.
16
With a smile the two men acknowledged the triumph of her alibi.
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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