| No defect is extenuated, nor is there any patriotic exaggeration of merits. |
| Duty becomes a matter of interpretation, and crime is in risk of being extenuated. |
| Both outfits extenuated the tans and muscles that had grown over the summer. |
| That fever was extenuated after an hour of uneventful play when Arsenal's Alex Song stamped on the calf of the grounded Joey Barton. |
| There are things which cannot be extenuated however we may try to palliate them. |
| A doctrinal synthesis may be a negative guide, eliminating erroneous interpretation, but only in a very extenuated sense would it be a positive aid to interpretation. |
