Excusatory

Quick meaning: Excusatory is an adjective meaning serving to make an excuse.

Meaning

serving to make an excuse.

Example Sentences

Before entering another (middle- or lower-class) native's house, he is very complimentary, and sometimes three minutes' polite excusatory dialogue is exchanged between the visitor and the native visited before the former passes the threshold.

General Grant to Halleck, in an excusatory and exculpatory letter (May 7th), as to the disaster on his right, said: "Milroy's old brigade was attacked and gave way in great confusion, almost without resistance, carrying good troops with them."

There are two excusatory phrases in the criminal justice lexicon which provoke in me immediate suspicion, especially when used by government ministers or the police. One is "there are safeguards", the other "innocent people have nothing to fear".

Synonyms for excusatory

Depending on context, synonyms include defensive, justificative, apologetic, justificatory.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include apologetic, justificative, justificatory, defensive, expiative, expositive.

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