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Alibi   /ˈæləbˌaɪ/   Listen
Alibi

noun
1.
(law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
2.
A defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc..  Synonyms: exculpation, excuse, self-justification.  "Every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job" , "His transparent self-justification was unacceptable"
verb
1.
Exonerate by means of an alibi.



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"Alibi" Quotes from Famous Books



... sought to "establish an alibi" by showing that Vespucci was in Spain throughout the period which, he says, was passed by him at sea, on this "first" voyage; but they have not been successful in doing so. Some, again, have declared that the narrative of the "four" voyages, beginning ...
— Amerigo Vespucci • Frederick A. Ober
... candle inside a pasteboard box, partly filled the box with leaves, heaped some leaves on top of it, and hurried away. The candle probably burned for hours before it burned low enough to set fire to the leaves. By that time the culprit was far away and could prove an alibi." ...
— The Young Wireless Operator--As a Fire Patrol - The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol • Lewis E. Theiss
... will give him Rome into the bargain. We acknowledge that the honourable senators who tried Verres received presents which were worth more than the fee-simple of York House and Gorhambury together, and that the no less honourable senators and knights who professed to believe in the alibi of Clodius obtained marks still more extraordinary of the esteem and gratitude of the defendant. In short, we are ready to admit that, before Bacon's time, and in Bacon's time, judges were in the habit ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... was working for me yesterday. He was in the kitchen talking to Mattie. I wonder—Well, there's one thing; if Perry's blouse has two buttons missing, he'll be confronted with the job of establishing an alibi for all of ...
— The Winning Clue • James Hay, Jr.
... secularibus, deservientibus ecclesiam quondam Templariorum apud London, vocatam Novum Templum, prout ordinatum est per totum consilium totius regni, pro animabus fundatorum dicti Novi Templi et alia [sic] possessionum alibi ... lv m. ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 38, Saturday, July 20, 1850 • Various


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