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Examples of exculpate
exculpate
But one can't easily exculpate the government for their poor results.
From the economist.com
In an attempt to exculpate himself, Sanchez casts blame widely.
From the washingtonpost.com
White people voted for him to exculpate their guilt, blacks because he was black, minorities because he is a minority.
From the forbes.com
A year later he also sought to exculpate himself in the pages of a ghost-written autobiography, Between the Lines.
From the independent.co.uk
He lived at the Imperial court and sought by the intervention of the Emperor to exculpate himself before the Pope.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Facing major budget cutbacks, the U.S. Army did not need any additional bad press and found ways to exculpate Custer.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The claim that Houk, Mann, Greenberg, and the others made against Walter Rosenblum doesn't exculpate them as enablers in this mess.
From the theatlantic.com
If you accuse people wholesale of Nazism, you are watering down the term, make it meaningless, and therefore truly exculpate them.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The hopeful youth takes on himself the guilt of the entire forgery, and strains hard to exculpate his worthy father from the slightest participation in it.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Acquit: pronounce not guilty of criminal charges; "The suspect was cleared of the murder charges"
- (exculpated) absolved: freed from any question of guilt; "is absolved from all blame"; "was now clear of the charge of cowardice"; "his official honor is vindicated"
- (exculpation) excuse: a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.; "he kept finding excuses to stay"; "every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job"; "his transparent self-justification was unacceptable"
- (exculpation) the act of freeing from guilt or blame
- (exculpatory) clearing of guilt or blame
- In jurisprudence, an excuse or justification is a defense to criminal charges that is distinct from an exculpation. In this context, "to excuse" means to grant or obtain an exemption for a group of persons sharing a common characteristic from a potential liability. ...
- Exculpatory evidence is the evidence favorable to the defendant in a criminal trial, which clears or tends to clear the defendant of guilt. It is the opposite of inculpatory evidence, which tends to prove guilt.
- To clear of or free from guilt; exonerate
- (Exculpation) to remove a party from being in a position of liability.
