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alibi plea plead pardon overlook inexcusable forgive Salvo pretext allege apology excusation sob story dispense exempt lame let off invent cook apologize excuseless offcome essoin out malice flimsy condone sorry excusement creephole scuse excusable put-off pretense essoign apologetic cause explain think up defense excusatory cloak poormouth rationalize threadbare cop–out feign plausible make allowance for faik cook up excusing excused evasion occasion poor color
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clumsy cop-out invention manufacture refuge explanation apologetically apheresis [or] aphaeresis give concoct allegation escape no call for make up cock-and-bull story vindication excusive excusable neglect malicious justification cop out go-around forbear shuffling fabricate extenuating trump let someone off unconvincing salve explain oneself let impleadable standard excuse me provocation buts accept extenuation trump something up colour get out gloss spiel cock and bull story wasted story transparent airtight enable purposeless senseless daff pled unforgiving cook something up the thing is crock pointless unpardonable superfluous dead disculpate sad forgiving name otiose a likely story handle licence poor–mouth made trumped-up unjustifiable damned mitigation old come-off covert justifiably inflammable line open invitation get out of sth make up something fob off cover for someone/something trot out insanity plea make sth up reason weak release trundle out mitch simper pretex lameness sense make excusator put fumble inexcusably what have you got to say for yourself? feed sb a line likely subterfuge spin (someone) a yarn put over make no apologies for exculpate far-fetched hook paltry unpleaded a peg on which to hang something apologize for cover put across exculpation blunder baby design criminal damage whine ill recuse palliation but buy trump sth up wash (with sb) song and dance something does/will not wash talk one's way out of (something) naturalistic mistake trot sth out insufficiency frivolity querulous watertight gravitate palliate trespass venom convenient fob sb off (with sth) palm off allegeable come pretend bedtime fallal birthday circumstance Chiltern Hundreds fly party under the weather slander mitigate presentment of Englishry mischief force majeure apologise engagement homework dilatory simulate tardy considerate lebensraum miffed exception feebleminded guff accuse facile irrational meal reasonable rheum awol absenteeism extenuate forge proscribe suspect leniency awkward contemptible adduce breach example privilege

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Words For "excuse"

As you've probably noticed, words for "excuse" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this word similarity engine, the top 5 related words for "excuse" are: alibi, plea, plead, pardon, and overlook. There are 249 other words that are related to or similar to excuse listed above. Hopefully the generated list of words for "excuse" above suit your needs. If not, you might want to check out Related Words - another project of mine which uses a different technique (not though that it works best with single words, not phrases).

About Reverse Dictionary

The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple. It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query. For example, if you type something like "longing for a time in the past", then the engine will return "nostalgia". The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage it's starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results sometimes). It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. So in a sense, this tool is a "search engine for words", or a sentence to word converter.

I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren't included in thesauri. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. waves, sunsets, trees, etc.).

In case you didn't notice, you can click on words in the search results and you'll be presented with the definition of that word (if available). The definitions are sourced from the famous and open-source WordNet database, so a huge thanks to the many contributors for creating such an awesome free resource.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: Elastic Search, @HubSpot, WordNet, and @mongodb.

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