"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

(11) sufficient, ample, adequate, decent

Kolokacji: 4

1. sufficient excuse = wystarczające usprawiedliwienie sufficient excuse

Anything, or nothing at all, is sufficient excuse for Mugabe and his henchmen.
Luke didn't seem inclined to accept a dose of flu as sufficient excuse.
To go quit smoking, when there ain't any sufficient excuse for it!
Lack of language does not seem a sufficient excuse.
I am just not convinced that that is sufficient excuse for what happened.
But that is surely not a sufficient excuse for continuing them.
For the minister, youth seemed sufficient excuse for this neglect.
If only he could believe that would be a sufficient excuse for Natima!
I suspected the well-being of an animal would seem to him a sufficient excuse.
I don't like what's happened any better than you do, but that's hardly sufficient excuse for failing to exercise sound judgment.

2. adequate excuse = należyte usprawiedliwienie adequate excuse

3. ample excuse = dostateczne usprawiedliwienie ample excuse

4. decent excuse = przyzwoite usprawiedliwienie decent excuse

(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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