"excuse" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- You wished to see me on a trumped-up excuse.
- Or that his phone call could have been made from a nearby call-box and he was even now listening to her mother's only too obviously trumped-up excuses.
- The whole Monica thing was a transparent trumped-up excuse.
- He could, of course, have summoned King Melwas to the council hall on a trumped-up excuse, but this he would not do.
- Many people well into middle age can remember the trumped-up excuses or notes from home or the doctor that allowed them to escape the ritual.
- Drawing away, she looked at him with such innocent acceptance of his trumped-up excuse that he nearly broke into a grin.
- What trumped-up excuses have you spent the night dreaming up?
- Nevertheless, it was used repeatedly by central governments to suspend state governments (of opposite political parties) based on genuine reasons or trumped-up excuses.
- He could just imagine Finnea firing off a note with some trumped-up excuse to see him.
- He thought of a trumped-up excuse and glanced back over his sboulder.
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