Synonym: absolve, alibi, forgive, pardon, reason. Antonym: blame. Similar words: excuse me, accuse, focus on, custody, discuss, the accused, customer, accusation. Meaning: [ɪk'skjuːz] 
n. 1. a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. 2. a note explaining an absence 3. a poor example. v. 1. accept an excuse for 2. grant exemption or release to 3. serve as a reason or cause or justification of 4. defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning 5. ask for permission to be released from an engagement 6. excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with.
n. 1. a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. 2. a note explaining an absence 3. a poor example. v. 1. accept an excuse for 2. grant exemption or release to 3. serve as a reason or cause or justification of 4. defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning 5. ask for permission to be released from an engagement 6. excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with. 
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271. Excuse my interrupting you.
272. He's a rotten excuse for a lawyer. Why on earth did you hire him?
273. No amount of financial recompense can excuse the way in which the company carried out its policy.
274. We cannot make this minority a convenient excuse to turn our backs.
275. He'll grab at any excuse to avoid doing the dishes.
276. Excuse me, I have to get off at the next stop.
277. Excuse me I seem to be a little bit lost.
278. I'm sure Mike has a good excuse for not coming.
279. Excuse me for a minute — I must pay a call of nature before we leave.
280. She had to find a valid excuse for leaving the room.
281. To say you were ignorant of the rules is no excuse.
282. Well, he wants the report ready by tomorrow but I can always fob him off with some excuse.
283. Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can. Ashleigh Brilliant 
284. Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it. Veronica Roth
285. The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. Jules Renard
286. If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse. Woody Allen
287. His excuse sounds unconvincing. Sentencedict.com
288. Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance. George Bernard Shaw
289. Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Henry Ward Beecher
290. It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. George Washington
291. I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity. Chris Rock
292. Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
More similar words: excuse me, accuse, focus on, custody, discuss, the accused, customer, accusation, discussion, excess, except, exceed, excited, exclude, except for, exchange, exciting, excluding, excessive, exception, excellent, exclusive, excitement, in excess of, exclusively, excruciating, in exchange for.