"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
(15) welcome, favorite
Kolokacji: 2
1. cheap excuse = niewybredne usprawiedliwienie cheap excuse
2. stupid excuse = głupie usprawiedliwienie stupid excuse
3. ridiculous excuse = śmieszne usprawiedliwienie ridiculous excuse
  • Then he'd touched her to slip the cloth into the belt of her ridiculous excuse for clothing, and she'd snapped.
  • For some bizarre, unfathomable reason, people who can't draw and paint (arts journalists) can't look at this ridiculous excuse for a painting and think anything other than "it must be genius".
  • "I saw a top-10 list of the most ridiculous excuses for positive drug tests," Tygart said.
  • We're talking about the ridiculous iron-fisted excuse for discipline in the Regs.
  • If you're a rational being, don't make such ridiculous excuses.
  • You ridiculous excuse for a wizard!
  • Would I use that ridiculous hit-and-run excuse?
  • I made up some ridiculous excuse, but he said he'd ask again and he probably will.
  • It's that your race has survived love, the most overblown, ridiculous excuse for a positive emotion that any race has ever encountered.
4. self-serving excuse = wyrachowane usprawiedliwienie self-serving excuse
preposición + excuse
Kolokacji: 7
of excuses • for an excuse • without excuse • with an excuse • to excuses • ...

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