law A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.

Roget 187: absence; inexistence etc. 2^†; nonresidence, absenteeism; nonattendance, alibi.    emptiness etc. adj.; void, vacuum; vacuity, vacancy; tabula rasa [Lat.]; exemption; hiatus etc. (interval) 198; lipotype^†.    truant, absentee.    nobody; nobody present, nobody on earth; not a soul; ame qui vive [Fr.].    ... show more

Dutch: alibi
Polish: alibi

A defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.:
— Every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job.

synonyms: exculpation, excuse, self-justification.

Dutch: alibi, excuus, flous, zelfrechtvaardiging
Polish: wymówka, wykręt

Exonerate by means of an alibi.