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excuse noun

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ADJ. perfect, wonderful | good, legitimate, valid | convincing, plausible, reasonable | feeble, flimsy, lame, pathetic, poor | convenient, easy The children provided a convenient excuse for missing the party. | standard, usual | every She seized on every excuse to avoid doing the work. | the slightest He became moody and unreasonable, flailing out at Katherine at the slightest excuse.

VERB + EXCUSE have He had no excuse for being so late. | give, make, offer She made some feeble excuse about the car having broken down. You don't have to make excuses for her (= try to think of reasons for her behaviour). It's late. I'm afraid I'll have to make my excuses (= say I'm sorry, give my reasons and leave). | give sb, offer sb, provide (sb with) Delivering the stuff for Rodney gave me an excuse to take the car. Her mother's illness provided her with an excuse to stay at home. | need | look for | find, invent, make up, seize on, think up She had to find a valid excuse for leaving the room. He made up a rather lame excuse for the work being late. | use sth as The political crisis is being used as an excuse to dock people's pay. | run out of He's run out of excuses for not tidying his room. | accept, believe | reject

PREP. ~ about He invented a pathetic excuse about losing his watch. | ~ for It's just an excuse for a party.

PHRASES there is no excuse for … There's no excuse for such behaviour.

2 bad example of sth

ADJ. pathetic, poor

PREP. ~ for Why get involved with that pathetic excuse for a human being?

Từ điển WordNet

    n.

  • a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.; alibi, exculpation, self-justification

    he kept finding excuses to stay

    every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job

    his transparent self-justification was unacceptable

  • a note explaining an absence

    he had to get his mother to write an excuse for him

  • a poor example; apology

    it was an apology for a meal

    a poor excuse for an automobile

    v.

  • accept an excuse for; pardon

    Please excuse my dirty hands

  • grant exemption or release to; relieve, let off, exempt

    Please excuse me from this class

  • serve as a reason or cause or justification of; explain

    Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work

    Her recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again

  • defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; apologize, apologise, justify, rationalize, rationalise

    rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior

    he rationalized his lack of success

  • ask for permission to be released from an engagement; beg off
  • excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with; condone

    excuse someone's behavior

    She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities

English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

excuses|excused|excusingsyn.: absolve alibi forgive pardon reasonant.: blame

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