"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 • ...

colocaciones frecuentes

Kolokacji: 7

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 16

(1) good, great, sorry, acceptable, excellent, ...

Kolokacji: 9

(2) perfect, fine, vague, transparent

Kolokacji: 4

(3) poor, pathetic, miserable, pitiful

Kolokacji: 4

1. poor excuse = marna wymówka poor excuse

2. pathetic excuse = żałosne usprawiedliwienie pathetic excuse

"All I see is a pathetic excuse for a king and the folk who are going to stop him."
Never finding the time is such a pathetic excuse.
I've never heard of a more pathetic excuse for 'regulation' in my life.
Everyone needs to play fairly and by the rules instead of coming up with pathetic excuses as to why they should be exempt.
She was anchored now in a pathetic excuse for a harbor.
"Because I know the kind of pathetic, warped excuse for a human being you are?"
Nobody would fall for that pathetic excuse she'd made up.
Just this pathetic excuse for a human being standing before him.
And how sorry do we feel for this pathetic excuse of a human being.
He has just been alleging the pathetic excuse that she was old enough to be his mother.

3. miserable excuse = nieszczęśliwe usprawiedliwienie miserable excuse

4. pitiful excuse = żałosne usprawiedliwienie pitiful excuse

(4) only, easy, ready

Kolokacji: 3

(5) lame, flimsy, slight, feeble, weak

Kolokacji: 5

(6) convenient, handy, suitable

Kolokacji: 3

(7) reasonable, legitimate, valid, official, lawful, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(8) plausible, convincing, glib

Kolokacji: 3

(9) possible, old, built-in, real

Kolokacji: 4

(10) usual, polite, common, standard

Kolokacji: 4

(11) sufficient, ample, adequate, decent

Kolokacji: 4

(12) mere, elaborate

Kolokacji: 2

(13) ready-made, tired

Kolokacji: 2

(14) phony, trumped-up

Kolokacji: 2

(15) welcome, favorite

Kolokacji: 2

(16) cheap, stupid, self-serving, ridiculous

Kolokacji: 4

preposición + excuse

Kolokacji: 7

of excuses • for an excuse • without excuse • with an excuse • to excuses • ...

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