"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
4. self-serving excuse = wyrachowane usprawiedliwienie self-serving excuse
  • 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.
preposición + excuse
Kolokacji: 7
of excuses • for an excuse • without excuse • with an excuse • to excuses • ...

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