"excuse" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

excuse sustantivo

excuse + verbo

Kolokacji: 3

excuse says • excuse sounds • excuse makes

verbo + excuse

Kolokacji: 13

make excuses • find an excuse • give an excuse • offer an excuse • use the excuse • ...

adjetivo + excuse

Kolokacji: 61

good excuse • perfect excuse • poor excuse • only excuse • lame excuse • ...

colocaciones frecuentes

Kolokacji: 7

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 16

(1) good, great, sorry, acceptable, excellent, ...

Kolokacji: 9

(2) perfect, fine, vague, transparent

Kolokacji: 4

(3) poor, pathetic, miserable, pitiful

Kolokacji: 4

(4) only, easy, ready

Kolokacji: 3

(5) lame, flimsy, slight, feeble, weak

Kolokacji: 5

(6) convenient, handy, suitable

Kolokacji: 3

(7) reasonable, legitimate, valid, official, lawful, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(8) plausible, convincing, glib

Kolokacji: 3

(9) possible, old, built-in, real

Kolokacji: 4

(10) usual, polite, common, standard

Kolokacji: 4

1. usual excuse = zwykłe usprawiedliwienie usual excuse

2. common excuse = wspólne usprawiedliwienie common excuse

3. polite excuse = grzeczne usprawiedliwienie polite excuse

I thought of a polite excuse, but instead what came out was: "Not interested."
Murmuring a polite excuse, he drifted down the long expanse of the gallery.
After a while, he made a polite excuse and departed.
You'll be lucky to get a polite excuse as they pass you by.
Women flocked around him, and he, the idiot, always turned them down with some polite excuse.
He shook hands with Weston, made a polite excuse.
She glanced around for an escape route and tried to think up a polite excuse.
Some do come by, but make a polite excuse and never come back.
Cassidy brushed the thought away, unwilling to try to analyze his friend or make polite excuses for him.
If nothing else, he can make up a polite excuse and call for an early beam-out.

4. standard excuse = typowe usprawiedliwienie standard excuse

(11) sufficient, ample, adequate, decent

Kolokacji: 4

(12) mere, elaborate

Kolokacji: 2

(13) ready-made, tired

Kolokacji: 2

(14) phony, trumped-up

Kolokacji: 2

(15) welcome, favorite

Kolokacji: 2

(16) cheap, stupid, self-serving, ridiculous

Kolokacji: 4

preposición + excuse

Kolokacji: 7

of excuses • for an excuse • without excuse • with an excuse • to excuses • ...

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