Sentence examples for lousy excuse from inspiring English sources

Fourth, a recession is a lousy excuse to starve one of the best (and only) instruments we have for helping people who live on a few dollars a day.

What I'm saying is that there's currently no lack of role models, and that it's a lousy excuse to use in arguments about the sorry state of the European tech industry.

He also responded to Murdoch's defense of the cover, saying, "That's a lousy excuse.

It was the lousiest excuse I'd ever made, but when someone you don't know or care about demands to be jacked off, you don't exactly put jacking them off at the top of your to-do list.

"Look," the sergeant said, "we ain't got no time here to handle no lousy valid excuses.

Poverty, of course, can't be an excuse for lousy teaching.

But that excuse is lousy, especially now.

This section is, again, a qualitative look at the strengths and weaknesses of the company: It's where the sales manager gets to make excuses for a lousy sales year, where the R&D department talks about new advances and the impact it will have, and so on; it gives you a closer look at the big picture.

No matter how you feel -- you're grandmother passed away, or you've lost your house to the bank -- nothing excuses late or lousy food.

This is the original part of the inn: more turf fires, a black range, time-worn wooden chairs, the sort of place which turns lousy weather (or a sore throat) into an excuse to settle in for the duration.

That sounds like an excuse for bad market timing and lousy stock selection.