"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. lame excuse = kiepska wymówka lame excuse
2. flimsy excuse = usprawiedliwienie peluru flimsy excuse
  • The concern was a lie, of course, a flimsy excuse.
  • IT is summer, when some of us will look for any flimsy excuse to be outside.
  • With that flimsy excuse for a dress, she might as well have been naked.
  • Companies have not used strategic giving as a flimsy excuse to get stingy, though.
  • Her flimsy excuse was that the new data raised no question about the innocence of the defendants.
  • He's not one who can be put off with a flimsy excuse.
  • Eventually, I give up making fires altogether, on the flimsy excuse that spring is almost here.
  • I'll think up some flimsy excuse to get away and then I'll come back to the hotel.
  • Naturally he'd been given some flimsy excuse, but Roberto had learned long ago the real reason.
  • All they need is a flimsy excuse to not do something for the first time.
3. slight excuse = lekkie usprawiedliwienie slight excuse
4. feeble excuse = nieprzekonujące usprawiedliwienie feeble excuse
5. weak excuse = nieprzekonująca wymówka weak 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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