Sentence examples for excuse your behaviour from inspiring English sources

The phrase "excuse your behaviour" is not correct in standard English usage.
It is typically used to address someone's actions, but the phrasing is awkward and may imply that the speaker is asking for permission to excuse the behaviour rather than addressing it directly.
Example: "I must ask you to excuse your behaviour during the meeting, as it was disruptive to others."
Alternatives: "apologize for your behaviour" or "account for your behaviour."

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Trying to excuse your behaviour because the woman involved smiled on the evening in question is a sexist act.

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To subscribe so deeply to your own DNA is just another form of genetic determinism, or a way of excusing your behaviour because it's just in your "genes".

This is not to excuse Russian behaviour.

No amount of scientific brilliance can excuse this behaviour.

If business schools were businesses, one might excuse their behaviour.

Yet the black-hats seem anxious to excuse such behaviour.

That's not intended to excuse their behaviour, but to explain it".

Vagn didn't mention Nanna's rape, or try to excuse his behaviour.

The fact that Putin does so in part because he believes the Americans have also done so for decades does not excuse such behaviour.

Of course my troubles at the time don't excuse my behaviour, but they do help me understand the crazy choices I made.

Childhood maltreatment is alluded to, but such is the towering moral agency invested in the characters that it's not allowed to excuse their behaviour.

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