Sentence examples for dismal excuse from inspiring English sources
"Explanations such as 'we worked on different floors' and 'we dressed differently' are a slap in the face to them and a dismal excuse for failures that could severely hit the public purse".
Except for times when I use one online database that supports Microsoft 's dismal excuse for a browser, I never have much use for the blue lower-case "e" on my desktop.
For a little more than half the U.S. population, that is a dismal excuse for equal representation.
If you're not quite ready to pull the plug on this dismal excuse for a conversation, yet, you can step the empathic grunting up a notch with some of these bland non-committal-type statements that work well with pushy people.
And I worry that those in power, rather than taking responsibility for job creation, will soon declare that high unemployment is "structural," a permanent part of the economic landscape — and that by condemning large numbers of Americans to long-term joblessness, they'll turn that excuse into dismal reality.
If Arrington truly wishes to create the great Silicon Valley meritocracy that he loves to brag about, he's going to have to open the door for everyone to compete and stop making excuses for dismal outcomes.
While their counterparts in football and basketball mirrored most of corporate America, using today's dismal economic conditions as an excuse to gouge their workers at the bargaining table, M.L.B. and its union quietly put together a deal that kept both sides happy.
But after three years of extravagant promises and dismal results, the time for excuses has passed.
Prior was grateful to the Australians for delaying the toss while he was attended to by England's medical staff but refused to make excuses for a dismal batting effort in which only he and Alastair Cook reached double figures.
For those of us who pay attention, the Vida count was Groundhog Day all over again: new year, same dismal statistics, same sober/inadvertently hilarious excuse-making as editors try to explain away their lack of women's voices.
But no matter how dismal things are, there's no excuse for rude behavior.
