Words similar to alibi

Example sentences for: alibi

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There's probably no staler chestnut than the Southern alibi that it wasn't slavery's defense but honor and loyalty to place that made most Confederates take up arms to fight the Northern "aggressors."
3. An item or transaction of little worth: a poor fxxx of an alibi.
But this doesn't add up to an alibi for Clinton.
Pressed about their cautious conduct of the war, Clinton's putative idealists invoke the classic realist alibi: impossibility.
(I fed the family alibi to the Washington Post when I quit my Washington job in 1994.