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Exculpatory   Listen
adjective
Exculpatory  adj.  Clearing, or tending to clear, from alleged fault or guilt; excusing. "An exculpatory letter."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Exculpatory" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the villains, and you had killed them all, I should have held it the noblest and most virtuous act you could have performed," said Roland, too fiercely agitated by his own contending passions to note the strange medley of self-accusing and exculpatory expressions, the shame-faced, conscience-stricken looks, alternating with gleams of military fire and self-complacency, with which the man of peace recounted his bloody exploit, or the adroit attempt, with which he concluded it, to shuffle the responsibility of the crime, ...
— Nick of the Woods • Robert M. Bird



Words linked to "Exculpatory" :   clean-handed, absolvitory, forgiving, innocent, justificatory, guiltless



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