| There are things which cannot be extenuated however we may try to palliate them. |
| No defect is extenuated, nor is there any patriotic exaggeration of merits. |
| Its rather angular and extenuated figures are reminiscent of those of a pyxis in Berkeley which has already been discussed in its relation to our painter. |
| Now, you too must take this road silently, without one word of complaint or lament, humiliated, misunderstood, extenuated. |
| She neither denied nor extenuated the crime, and she acknowledged it to have been premeditated. |
| I said something else to your spirit, and your spirit has not been able to make your extenuated flesh write it, and I shall repeat it to you. |
