Sentence examples for badly excuse from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "badly excuse" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be a misphrasing; the correct expression is "bad excuse."
Example: "His explanation for being late was a badly excuse that no one believed."
Alternatives: "poor excuse" or "lame excuse.".

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If things are going badly, excuse yourself.

If things are going really badly, excuse yourself.

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"But, regardless, is a celebrity who behaves badly somehow excused because of his or her fame, unlike antagonists in other memoirs that don't include celebrities?" "Am I in that chapter?" she asked, with a serious tone.

But like I said, About Time is two hours long, which is long for a movie like this, and so much of it is just some scenario going badly, Tim stammering "Excuse me a minute," running to a closet, and reliving the moment better, which gets really tedious, as McAdams keeps pushing your cuteness gag reflex.

Fear of doing something badly is a terrible excuse for not doing it at all.

If you want it that badly, there's little excuse today to not make it happen.

As the former pupil conceded: 'If anyone had an excuse for behaving badly it was Constantine.' He was said to carry a flick knife and a can of mace, for fear of being kidnapped.

rowdyism / (roû de ism) / n. / a spirit of noisiness and disorderly conduct condemned by the Victorians but embraced by today's parlor-game-playing sophisticates, who use the games as an excuse to behave badly, as in, "The last round of Mafia disintegrated into rowdyism when the hostess annihilated her husband".

Why are we vehemently against the idea of sex addiction as an actual disorder, and so quick to say it's an excuse to behave badly?

Unfortunately, even people who have legitimate handicap parking placards use the loading area between two spots as an excuse to park badly.

While this isn't an excuse to behave badly, it might help you to better understand where your friend is coming from.

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