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Excuse meaning
To forgive; to pardon; to overlook. | To allow to leave, or release from any obligation. | To provide an excuse for; to justify.
Synonyms of Excuse
Example sentences (20)
A CONVICTED dealer who initially avoided a prison term after operating in the "vile and seedy world of Class A drugs" has been jailed after coming up with “excuse after excuse” to avoid unpaid work.
She said: “There’s no excuse for this behaviour under any circumstances – and it’s no excuse that you have taken drink.
The public is expecting and the thromde’s excuse of “lack of budget” will not be a good excuse hereafter.
Excuse after excuse and refused to accept blame.
The Government have made excuse after excuse for far too long to justify cutbacks in health services.
The outreach is targeted to voters in states where no excuse is needed to vote by mail or where fears of the coronavirus are accepted as an excuse.
Any excuse to give up is not an excuse good enough for them.
A lot of the terrible shows on this list have the excuse of being products of their time, but there was no excuse in 2017 to have shoddy special effects like this, especially coming from the likes of Marvel.
Despite the players clearly affected by the severity of the injury, Cuthbert wasn’t using that to justify their poor first half display, as he added: “You can use what happened to Luke as an excuse, but it wasn’t an excuse.
I’m writing to point out an important part of the call which was that even though she arranged dates she was upset because her ‘ex-boyfriend’ never did and his excuse to this was ADHD and she wanted to know if this was a legitimate excuse or not.
A defence lawyer told Antrim Magistrates Court, sitting in Ballymena, there was "absolutely no excuse" for such a speed.
A judge was left perplexed by a Shropshire paedophile's excuse after he was caught trying to have sex chats with 12-year-old girls by undercover police.
All of these empathetic myths can give people a blanket excuse to be against EVs, whether due to politics or simply fear of the unknown.
Although, it does give players an excuse to explore every nook and cranny in which is a reward in itself, thanks to the game’s atmosphere.
Although Paul Wellens did not look to fatigue as an excuse for the way they were pipped by a point in their first home game since September - the Saints boss suggested that they are in "unchartered waters" when it comes to their recovery.
Analysts previously said North Korea would likely use the drills as an excuse to carry out more missile launches and perhaps even a nuclear test.
Anderson could find an excuse for every missed shot, Calhoun said, from the slightest bump by a defender to the atmospheric pressure changes of a New England winter.
And I must note that pointing out that “she doesn’t have any trauma” that would be an acceptable excuse for her “old-fashioned views” about porn and sex toys, or masturbation, is … well, just gross.
Andrew Whaley, senior technical director at Norwegian cybersecurity company Promon, said: “This is a pretty lame excuse.
Any excuse for a party I suppose, as this coming weekend will testify – coinciding (probably no coincidence though) with England against Ireland in Dublin in the final round of the Six Nations.