excusingly
advEtymology From excusing + -ly.
1
So as to excuse; by way of an excuse.
- "Oh well, he's young," he added excusingly. "And I suppose he's just feeling his oats."1945, Robert S. Close, Love Me Sailor, Horwit Publications, page 52:
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