"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
  • They also provide a ready excuse for voters so inclined.
  • Alan tried repeatedly to reach Anne, but the maid always had a ready excuse.
  • Rushing by, a half-dozen women had a ready excuse.
  • "Waited in the car with these excuses all ready for when I showed up?"
  • There it was then - decision not entirely out of her hands, but the ready excuse at hand.
  • At the same time, they said, the complicated system also provides a ready excuse for the agency when its officers want to withhold information.
  • If so, she had a ready excuse: she was an artist, and artists didn't follow rules.
  • They took little comfort in the ready excuse.
  • And Tarn had no doubt of the ready excuse prepared for that particular tragedy.
  • Why are Americans, who have no such excuses, so ready to believe just about anything about their Government?
3. easy excuse = łatwe usprawiedliwienie easy excuse
(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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