Sentence examples for flimsy excuses from inspiring English sources

But these flimsy excuses are embarrassing.

But none of this made sense, and her flimsy excuses all fell apart.

But these were, I suppose, flimsy excuses for putting off what I knew would someday be inevitable.

But Justice Antonin Scalia had no trouble rejecting such flimsy excuses for evading the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement.

The problems of voting reform are not so much fundamental barriers to reform as convenient but flimsy excuses for inaction by Mr Bush and Congress.

Many lawmakers of both parties would rather hide behind these flimsy excuses than offend the gun lobby and the credulous voters who follow it, putting passage of Manchin-Toomey in serious doubt.

Most Australians thought the dingo was a flimsy excuse.

But human rights advocates called this a flimsy excuse to increase pressure on him.

She dismissed fears over who might one day control Syria as a flimsy excuse.

IT is summer, when some of us will look for any flimsy excuse to be outside.

He immediately saw this as a flimsy excuse for shopping, and he was partly right.