"adequate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- If he missed a performance with no adequate excuse, the fine rose to one pound (£1).
- Lorgh had no sons of his own, so that would provide an adequate excuse for this step.
- "But competition is not going to be an adequate excuse if elements of this story turn out to be wrong."
- But a mother's illness is not normally considered an adequate excuse for turning up late on military service.
- 'Pressure of work,' he says, as that's an adequate excuse.
- The arrival of our sons gave me an adequate excuse for a home computer.
- But when the life and character of Israel are at stake, those are not adequate excuses.
- None of these reasons provides an adequate excuse for leaving an important ingredient like behaviour to chance.
- I know that's not an adequate excuse, but I offer it as an explanation.
- His tone made it clear that he did not consider being troubled an adequate excuse.
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