"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
1. poor excuse = marna wymówka poor excuse
  • Until there just wasn't any response possible, and then she'd tell him he was a damned poor excuse for a man.
  • He did not want to kill this poor excuse for a man.
  • That is a poor excuse for such an abuse of power.
  • This poor excuse for a bed is too hard to sleep on anyway?
  • "Some people might think that was a pretty poor excuse."
  • "A poor excuse, especially from a man who already has more than enough of the world's goods."
  • Perhaps it was a poor excuse, but he could not go through that again.
  • I had been on that poor excuse for a road a couple of times in the past.
  • I now find him a poor excuse for a man and a complete ar$e.
  • However, I took her by the hand, a poor excuse being better than none.
2. pathetic excuse = żałosne usprawiedliwienie pathetic excuse
3. miserable excuse = nieszczęśliwe usprawiedliwienie miserable excuse
4. pitiful excuse = żałosne usprawiedliwienie pitiful excuse
(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
preposición + excuse
Kolokacji: 7
of excuses • for an excuse • without excuse • with an excuse • to excuses • ...

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