Sentence examples for a bad excuse from inspiring English sources

Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, has finally triumphed in a bruising battle to raise the pension age.America has a good and a bad excuse for its inaction.

In that context, the classic claim of perpetrators, that they "had to obey orders," is much harder to reject as just a bad excuse.

While Dellal is a frequent Manhattan visitant and said that setting up shop here is "not a bad excuse to visit more often," she still loves playing tourist with her two young sons in tow.

Not a bad excuse, really, even if it smacked a little bit of Little Britain's disgraced politician Sir Norman Fry ("I accidentally entered a part of another man's body in the gents' - I now consider this matter closed").

Inspiration or a bad excuse for a design rip-off?

The second is a bad excuse for the first.

Crescent rolls are a very bad excuse for croissants.

The next day, you can say, "I completely forgot!" You can also give a really bad excuse, like, "I had to wash my hair!" or "I just couldn't stop watching Hoarders!" This should make the person avoid you in no time at all.

Among my vows this year: donating blood once every 56 days, the minimum amount of time required between donations in Canada, because to me, my fear of needles was an increasingly bad excuse to not save lives.

Has every single Lars von Trier film with its dance with cruelty ( The House That Jack Built) and beauty ( Melancholia) not been a bad narrative excuse for the man to visualize his sick fantasies?

Has every single Lars von Trier film with its dance with cruelty (The House That Jack Built) and beauty ( Melancholia) not been a bad narrative excuse for the man to visualize his sick fantasies?