Sentence examples for bad excuse from inspiring English sources

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Bad excuse.

This damage doesn't even have the bad excuse of "savings".

In regard to his ruined marriage, there is even the not so bad excuse that he had not slept with his wife in years.

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.

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There are plenty of bad excuses for this but no good explanations.

Our driver failed to turn up: "Bad excuses are worse than none" (Fuller).

They should not be used as bad excuses for providing relief in-kind after these constraints no longer apply.

We talked about doing it on a regular basis, but I found myself coming up with really bad excuses to not do it, like my dog needs my attention.

Around half of all Indian women are illiterate, compared with a ratio of around one in seven in China.Singh's songsheetIndia's rulers have two bad excuses for not dealing with those roads, schools and hospitals.

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