explain away
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.82 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He couldn't just explain away all of his problems."
- "“I have heard it all. And how you will explain away any part of your guilt in that dreadful business, I confess is beyond my comprehension.”"
- "De Niro veers dangerously close to caricature—making chirpy noises, always tilting his head, adding dashes of comedy—yet he ends up personifying evil while never sanding off the edges of this horrible man or trying to explain away his misdeeds with a humanist approach."
- "I’m all for embracing converts to the anti-Trump cause. But if you listen to the dialogue between Tucker and his brother, it’s clear that rather than honestly reckoning with their role in America’s derangement, they’re developing a new conspiracy theory to explain it away."