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"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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