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alibi n. an excuse used by a person accused or suspected of crime. In the original Latin it means "in another place" which has to be the ultimate alibi. alibi noun corroborative excuse, declaration, defense, defensive evidence, defensive plea, exculpatory excuse, explanation, justifiable excuse, justification, justificaaory excuse, plausible excuse, plea in being elsewhere, proof of absence, verifiable excuse, verificative excuse Associated concepts: affirmative defense, notice of intention to introduce alibi defense, traverse of indictment See also: compurgation, excuse, pretext ALIBI, in evidence. This is a Latin word which signifies, elsewhere.
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Hollywood's "aversion to the
racial contradictions in American life," Cripps writes,
"reduced African Americans to absent, alibied for, dependent
victims of marketing strategies aimed at profitable universality"
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