Sentence examples for made-up excuse from inspiring English sources
"It wasn't some bulls**t made-up excuse," he retorted.
Goldstein rejects that as a "made-up" excuse, saying a snub was clearly intended.
I consider this a made-up excuse to justify the purchase to the public".
Most of all, though, a Nyfos concert has a theme — not some made-up excuse for stringing songs together, but something that makes deep musical or historical sense.
The foreign ministry in Moscow said the diplomat's flat in The Hague had been stormed by "armed people in camouflage uniform" and Mr Borodin had been beaten "in front of his children, on the absolutely made-up excuse that he allegedly mistreated them".
Earlier this month Mashable reported on a Facebook app in which Shaquille O'Neill will "call" basketball fans' bosses with a made-up excuse for why they're not at work.
Even though research shows that it is natural, and perhaps inevitable, for people to prune the weeds from their social groups as they move through adulthood, those who actually attempt to defriend in real life find that it often plays out like a divorce in miniature — a tangle of awkward exchanges, made-up excuses, hurt feelings and lingering ill will.
Because this "little fib" was used so often, and not just in my hometown, it has entered our everyday discourse as an expression which is understood to mean "a made up excuse on which one relies in order to avoid doing what one was being asked to do".
Ask for an extra for next week and use it during a class for a made up excuse.
How could a military superpower like the United States want to launch a preemptive strike on a Third World country thousands of miles away for what Iraqis see as a flimsy, made-up and discredited excuse: the fear that Iraq might have hidden stores of weapons that threaten America?
"I don't think the commission would describe it this way, but what we seem to be getting are a bunch of made-up last-minute excuses to justify what is basically a fire sale," said Dusty Rhodes, Hamilton County's auditor.
