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The Trans Pacific Partnership (and fast-track authority to whisk it through Congress without debate) is fast approaching. If you haven't seen our video about it, please watch. If you have, please share. And mobilize and organize friends and colleagues to call their senators and representatives to tell them to vote against this reprehensible deal.
Who runs the world's most lucrative shakedown operation? The Sicilian mafia? The People's Liberation Army in China? The kleptocracy in the Kremlin? If you are a big business, all these are less grasping than America's regulatory system. Companies must be punished when they do wrong, but the legal system has become an extortion racket http://econ.st/1wK2qWh
Despite the introduction of new policies to deter women from mainland China from giving birth in Hong Kong, expectant mums continue to flock to the former British crown colony.
Biographies and memoirs of C.S. Lewis have mostly been polarized. Friends and admirers have glossed over some of the strange features of his life, notably his long cohabitation with Jane Moore, a woman 27 years his senior and the mother of his friend Paddy.
2 (gloss over) try to conceal or disguise (something unfavourable) by treating it briefly or representing it misleadingly:the social costs of this growth are glossed over
chicanery
ʃɪˈkeɪnəri/
noun
- the use of deception or subterfuge to achieve one's purpose."storylines packed with political chicanery"
Middle English: from late Latin extortio(n-), from Latinextorquere 'wrest' (see extort).
verb tr.
1. To reduce or attempt to reduce the severity of (an error, an offense, etc.) by making partial excuses for it.
2. To lessen or to make light of.
Etymology
From Latin extenuare (to lessen), from ex- (out) + tenuare (to make thin), from tenuis (thin). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ten- (to stretch), which is also the source of tense, tenet, tendon, tent, tenor, tender, pretend, extend, tenure, tetanus, hypotenuse, pertinacious, and detente.
Usage
"The apology made clear that Shaftari believed that nothing could extenuate the wrongs he had done." — Robert F. Worth; 10 Years After a Mea Culpa, No Hint of a 'Me, Too'; The New York Times; Apr 17, 2010.
"Big bust, small lower half -- wear fitted jeans and tuck in your blouse to extenuate your waist." — Lindsay Clydesdale; A to Zoe of Fashion; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); May 11, 2010.
extenuate
tr.v., -at·ed, -at·ing, -ates.
- To lessen or attempt to lessen the magnitude or seriousness of, especially by providing partial excuses. See synonyms at palliate.
- Archaic.
- To make thin or emaciated.
- To reduce the strength of.
- Obsolete. To belittle; disparage.
[Latin extenuāre, extenuāt- : ex-, ex- + tenuāre, to make thin (from tenuis, thin).]
extenuative ex·ten'u·a'tive adj. & n.extenuator ex·ten'u·a'tor n.
extenuatory ex·ten'u·a·to'ry (-ə-tôr'ē, -tōr'ē) adj.
palliate
(păl'ē-āt')
tr.v., -at·ed, -at·ing, -ates.
- To make (an offense or crime) seem less serious; extenuate.
- To make less severe or intense; mitigate: tried unsuccessfully to palliate the widespread discontent.
- To relieve the symptoms of a disease or disorder.
[Middle English palliaten, from Late Latin palliāre, palliāt-, to cloak, palliate, from Latin pallium, cloak.]
palliation pal'li·a'tion n.palliator pal'li·a'tor n.
SYNONYMS palliate, extenuate, gloss, gloze, whitewash. These verbs mean to cause a fault or offense to seem less grave or less reprehensible: palliate a crime; couldn't extenuate the malfeasance; glossing over an unethical transaction; glozing sins and iniquities; whitewashed official complicity in political extortion. See also synonyms at relieve.
reprehensible
ˌrɛprɪˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l/
adjective
- deserving censure or condemnation.
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