| The diminutive professor looks pensive, and tries to extenuate his anguish with a shot at dark, gallows humour. |
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| Nor is he the victim of injustice or ingratitude that might extenuate, though not excuse, his later crimes. |
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| Kavanagh never apologises for him, nor does she try to extenuate his frequently brutal behaviour. |
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| She uses large sweeping movements and has brought in rich fabrics to extenuate her movements. |
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| Michaels damaged his character fatally by choosing to extenuate, or perhaps by forgetting about, Rigoletto's physical deformity. |
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| They can still extenuate imperfections, pimples or moles, especially if you have dry skin, which a cream or liquid foundation is less apt to do because it hydrates. |
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| I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds. |
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| The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. |
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| The apology made clear that he believed that nothing — not the exigencies of war, any prior crimes by others, or any legal amnesty — could extenuate the wrongs he had done. |
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