"miserable excuse" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe something as an inadequate and unsatisfactory explanation. For example, "He gave me a miserable excuse for why he was late."
I almost torpedo the mood by bringing up that miserable excuse for a holiday, Valentine's Day.
She has been publicly unmasked as a perfectly miserable excuse for a human being.
Why we haven't already run this miserable excuse for a man out of the country is beyond me.
He is the author of the forthcoming "You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero (Thomas Dunne Books/St Martins Press).
The program at the Council on Foreign Relations was designed for highly engaged students, who seem to have absorbed a fundamental lesson in life: Ignorance is a terrible strategy for success and a miserable excuse for failure.
It has been a miserable excuse for ancient, stomach-churning antipathy so far, but maybe things will look up now that an insouciant English rabble-rouser has stepped out of the pages of Evelyn Waugh and P.G.
"It rewrote the rules and made TV a better, happier place for thinking viewers, even as it was telling the story of a bunch of stubborn, ignorant, miserable excuses for human beings".
It is a bold move to create such a flawed female lead; the alcoholic lifestyle with its miserable excuses, urine-soaked underwear and vomit on the stairs is outlined in all its bleak, cyclic predictability.
I thought for sure that she would see right through me, that she would call me out as the outsider-imposter-miserable excuse for a mother that I surely was.
A demanding start did not help but it does not excuse the miserable season which was in part down to Grant's choices.
Motherhood can be miserable, of course, and an excuse, and a source of terrible conflict.
