alibi
Nouns
- (n) (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question
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(n) 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
Verbs
- (v) exonerate by means of an alibi