Sentence examples for deceptive excuse from inspiring English sources

Closing beach showers is likely to be the trial water balloon for using the drought as a deceptive excuse to further cut important public services.

Be prepared to face the consequences if you get caught for using a deceptive excuse.

While not exactly an incisive or original observation to point out that sometimes there are people who are rude to others, there is something quite worrying when those people have discovered a way to excuse it by wrapping it up in a deceptive veil which they falsely name 'truth'truth

What's more, the beach shower shutdown may well be the trial water balloon that initiates a flood of deceptive measures by government agencies eager to use water shortages as an excuse to drain important public services.

But for Sartre this kind of excuse amounts to an evasion – whether cynical or self-deceptive – which, since it is itself a sign of freedom, is always an untruth.

And deceptive.

Appearances here are deceptive.

"It's deceptive".

That may be deceptive.

But that is deceptive.

The stillness was deceptive.