| But, because she was Clancy Deane, they were not words of exculpation, or of apology. |
| He foresaw that any attempt at exculpation would be as fruitless as dangerous. |
| Shunned as pariahs and labeled psychopaths, the PTSD category offered moral exculpation and access to compensation. |
| Having already written an autobiography, Kerik lacks that particular route of exculpation. |
| The story had lost nothing in the way of incrimination of Colonel Eldridge, and complete exculpation of himself. |
| At the outset of Paradise Lost, Satan rallies his fellow fallen angels with a speech of exculpation. |
