"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
(13) ready-made, tired
Kolokacji: 2
(14) phony, trumped-up
Kolokacji: 2
1. phony excuse = usprawiedliwienie pozera phony excuse
  • When the time comes, he should willingly retire in lieu of some phony excuse.
  • One such arbitrary and phony excuse is that the subjects and activities of the non-Christian clubs correspond to the school's curriculum.
  • It will help to sweep aside the phony excuses.
  • Two more fights sounded like a phony excuse.
  • It's a phony excuse to alibi the pay-off made to Milton by your father for his split in the freight car robbery.
  • Reilly, in turn, said that the incumbent congressman was "full of phony excuses" and "afraid of the voters".
  • "Cynicism is a cheap, phony excuse for inaction," the President said to cheers and whistles.
  • So he concocted a few phony excuses, quit and ran out.
  • "How many other girls have you tempted up here using the same phony excuse?"
  • Actually he had, but he didn't want his brother dropping by unexpectedly with some phony excuse.
2. trumped-up excuse = sfingowane usprawiedliwienie trumped-up excuse
(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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