"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
1. only excuse = jedyne usprawiedliwienie only excuse
2. ready excuse = bezpośrednie usprawiedliwienie ready excuse
3. easy excuse = łatwe usprawiedliwienie easy excuse
  • That's an easy excuse, and one that I'm so sick of.
  • They also provide an easy excuse for politicians to side with insurance companies and not pass a mental health parity act.
  • "If we resist for that, then China will not find a very easy excuse to imprison them," he said.
  • 'It's because I'm black' has become the easy, standard excuse.
  • "I think that would be an easy excuse for us," Hartley said.
  • This year, Sept. 11 falls in the middle of the week, giving parents an easy excuse to schedule their children's birthday parties on other days.
  • Perhaps they didn't believe testosterone was an easy excuse for exploitation.
  • It was the easiest excuse that he could devise for keeping his face turned away from her.
  • If the review is bad, there's an easy excuse to stay at home and watch television.
  • "It" was the importance of battling one's way through all the easy excuses life offers for giving up.
(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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