"excuse" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Sometimes, from desperate imaginations, the silence provoked roaring hallucinations, fantastic rationalizations, or self-serving excuses for any crime the strong might choose to commit against the weak.
- "That sounds like a self-serving excuse to me," he said.
- It was a vain, self-serving excuse, I told myself.
- Or perhaps fall back on her customary litany of self-serving excuses and rationalizations.
- She was a no-nonsense professional with a sardonic wit that conveyed her dislike of cant, which she saw through swiftly, and self-serving excuses - which she would not tolerate.
- "Am I hearing the self-serving excuses of a man anticipating failure?"
- I'm sick of listening to their self-serving excuses which the jounalists shoot down in flames in less time than it takes me to read the original story.
- Their unnecessary use is an example of killing for the "sport" of it, a cruel form of "acting out" no matter what self-serving excuses are offered.
- The elections are over, and politicians no longer have even self-serving excuses for delay.
- Mr. Lieberman has constructed a tortured and self-serving excuse for depriving Connecticut voters of a Democratic Senate nominee who would be guaranteed to serve if elected to that office.
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