"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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 16
(4) only, easy, ready
Kolokacji: 3
(6) convenient, handy, suitable
Kolokacji: 3
(8) plausible, convincing, glib
Kolokacji: 3
(12) mere, elaborate
Kolokacji: 2
1. mere excuse = zwykłe usprawiedliwienie mere excuse
  • The Hortators' fear of war is mere excuse.
  • Not the poor clay track that is now a mere excuse for a road.
  • Such patriotism, she correctly divined, was a mere excuse for looseness of conduct.
  • But Mr. John argues that at some point "external factors" become mere excuses.
  • As to the pretence of trying her native air, I look upon that as a mere excuse.
  • "It's a mere excuse for self-indulgence and sensuality," he said.
  • In her less effective passages, the characters often feel like mere excuses for their author to crack wise.
  • They ridicule talk of their links to outside agitators as mere excuses to repress them.
  • Coffee became a mere excuse; taking only occasional sips, they sat while it cooled.
  • His crisis was no mere excuse to shirk his responsibilities, though sometimes it felt that way to me.
2. elaborate excuse = skomplikowane usprawiedliwienie elaborate excuse
(13) ready-made, tired
Kolokacji: 2
(14) phony, trumped-up
Kolokacji: 2
(15) welcome, favorite
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + excuse
Kolokacji: 7
of excuses • for an excuse • without excuse • with an excuse • to excuses • ...

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