"bogus excuse" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is used to describe a false or dishonest story that someone tells, in an attempt to hide the truth. For example, "She used a bogus excuse to explain why she was late for work."
You have a lot of bogus excuses, but obviously, the majority of people who have the say don't want it".
Lohan also had her own Billy Wilder moment on the set of Georgia Rule when the producer, took the unprecedented step of writing her a letter complaining of her "bogus excuses" and "all night heavy partying".
Will they embrace the courage and conviction one would expect of the highest administrators at institutions of higher learning, or cower behind superficial press releases and bogus excuses?
Avoid tired, bogus excuses including "it just happened", temptation, seduction by someone else, confusion, not realizing that it was happening, not meaning to do it, or falling prey to the influence of others.
That contention -- that God's hand or worker blunder caused a disaster -- is a bogus employer excuse that managers frequently dredge up.
But Mr. De Niro gives a surprisingly nuanced performance of a monster offering a long list of bogus reasons to excuse his evil.
Lawmakers shouldn't fall for the bogus Amendment 1 excuse.
He believed that the "I don't have time" excuse was bogus and unfounded.
It is for this, and only this, that ETA kills: its other excuses are bogus.
In some instances that may have been justified though experts like Tatsuhiko Kodama, head of the Radioisotope Centre at the University of Tokyo, say there was no excuse for the bogus assurances that there was no risk to public health.
