Alibi is the Latin word for elsewhere.
A defense in favor of an accused claiming that he could not have commited a crime.
the criminals alibi was that he was out of town and flew in by plane the night of the committed crime
The police asked me why i did a crime and i had a alibi.
Although the suspects alibi showed valid there was still something fishy about it, something that just didn't seem right.
I think the word you are asking of is "alibi".
The plural for alibi is alibis.
Alibi literally means "elsewhere". A defence of alibi is the defence that you were nowhere near where the crime took place at the time it took place. That is a perfectly reasonable defence. However, American gangsters in the Prohibition era made such a habit of bribing people to falsely swear that the gangster in question was somewhere other than at the scene of the crime that the word "alibi" took on a bad connotation in American ears. Eventually the Americans forgot what the word meant altogether and thought it meant "a bad excuse", or even "a lie"; the word is used in this way in the song "Big Girls Don't Cry".
My friend's alibi when he was late is that they went in traffic.
The police accused me of crime but I had a perfect alibi,I was at the police station when the crime occurred.
I believe that the word is 'alibi' I believe that the word is 'alibi'
The word "credence" is a noun. An example of the word in a sentence would be: They would later find out that there was no credence to her alibi.
The police asked me why i did a crime and i had a alibi.
An alibi is a legal excuse. That's my alibi, and I'm sticking to it. The truth is my alibi.
Alibi is the Latin word for elsewhere.
The police suspect had an alibi at the time the crime was committed.
Although the suspects alibi showed valid there was still something fishy about it, something that just didn't seem right.
"alibi" means "elsewhere."
Our subject today is "Native America Customs". The subject of the police investigation had a solid alibi.
Although not guilty of the crime, she could provide no alibi of her whereabouts on the evening in question.