"excesses" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It normally refers to an excessive amount or degree of something. For example, "The exceses of sugar in this cake make it too sweet for me to eat."
On these issues in particular, this house has a legitimate right to question the excesses of any government.
It also shows a remarkable contrast with what cycling (and most sports) has become today in the light of doping scandals and other excesses.
Nick Clegg insists he will continue to make the pro-EU case, and battle to get the Lib Dems their fair share of credit for the coalition's achievements, showing that it is credible party of government that can rein in Tory or Labour excesses, rather than one sitting on the sidelines without power.
Among them were a statement that the human papilloma virus was linked to "mental retardation" and the false assertion that "Barack Obama has a $1.4bn-a-year 1.4bn-a-year 1.4bn-a-yearxcesses".
Our culture has a history of excusing or ignoring the excesses of famous, powerful men.
In this brilliant, jet-black comedy, Bret Easton Ellis satirises the excesses of yuppy materialism and examines the dark side of the American Dream.
This tribute was prompted perhaps by Longford's optimistic avowal to the Germans that the British had forgiven them the wartime excesses.
Asked in our final focus groups to create their own ideal government, some chose a Conservative/Labour coalition, in the hope that one would cancel out the other's worst excesses.
Which is why, despite the excesses of the IOC and the 2012 corporate sponsors, he retained his faith in the Olympic ideal, still believing that it's "a healing and good thing for our kind, our species, for all of us.
They can be, and it right for government to challenge their worst excesses.
The apologists for the excesses of capitalism have always possessed a talent for representing their greed as essential to the national interest.
