Sentence examples for awful excuse from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "awful excuse" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a justification or reason that is considered inadequate or unsatisfactory.
Example: "His explanation for being late was an awful excuse that no one believed."
Alternatives: "terrible justification" or "poor rationale".

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I feel like this song can be heavily linked to the last book in the Vampire Academy series, Last Sacrifice, as I feel like this would be the song Rose would make Adrian listen to instead of her awful excuse of why she cheated on him with Dimitri.

Arya, please kill this awful excuse for a human ASAP.

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We are already doing worse because too many journalists are getting through their days with one eye on the precision of names and titles, details about a three-person fatality, or often some god-awful excuse-for-a-story while the other eye watches for the next list of newsroom layoffs.

"I don't think he has called the Astana guys or the Garmin guys to say anything, but there have been an awful lot of excuses flying around," he said.

Excuse the awful rainy picture.

And that was the great intellectual trap that meant we did excuse an awful lot of appalling behaviour on the grounds that it was pushing the necessary buttons to move to the new post-capitalist form of society".

Though an awful childhood doesn't excuse Amanda's actions -- Nikita and Alex certainly had it just as bad, if not worse -- one can at least see where she developed her penchant for messing around with people's wiring.

This is part of a broad right-wing effort to make it more difficult to vote on the grounds that voter fraud is rampant an effort, Democrats say, that looks an awful lot like an excuse to intimidate and harass minorities, the poor, and students, all voting demographics that lean Democratic.

And that excuses an awful lot of things".

The pitch was awful, but there was no excuse because both teams played on it.

News anchor Greta Van Susteren said that commentators were trying to use mental illness as an excuse for the "awful lot of evil out there".

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