alibi
/ˈæləbaɪ/
verb
- To provide an excuse or justification for someone's actions or absence.
- The manager alibied the employee's mistake by blaming the software.
- She tried to alibi her brother, but the teacher didn't believe her.
- His friend alibied him by saying they were together all evening.
noun
- A claim or piece of evidence that a person was elsewhere when a crime or wrongdoing took place, used to prove innocence.
- She needed a convincing alibi to explain why she wasn't at the meeting.
- The suspect had a solid alibi: he was at a dinner party with twenty guests at the time of the robbery.
- The detective checked the alibi and found it was false.
- An excuse or explanation for a mistake, failure, or absence.
- Don't make up an alibi; just admit you forgot.
- Her alibi for being late was that the train was delayed.
- He gave a weak alibi for missing the deadline, saying his computer crashed.
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