Sentence examples for transparent excuse from inspiring English sources

The next day she invented a transparent excuse about her mother being ill and left.

Suddenly, Kumail's curtain of defenses slams shut: he makes up a feeble and transparent excuse for not meeting them, obviously because he wants to avoid having to reciprocate.

Accusations of politically correct thought control have become a pathetic and transparent excuse for lazy racists, sexists and Islamophobes the land over.

Anyone can see through this transparent excuse for bullying RIM — they're not the first to try it.

"Invoking privacy concerns is a shameless, transparent excuse to mask intransigence," Farah said.

In the end, it is a transparent excuse to use transphobia to rally up rage induced page clicks and donations from the angry this is the business model for many of these outlets.

Outrageously, the court found politically transparent excuses to ignore the well-defined protections for freedom of expression in the European convention on human rights.

For years leading up to its unceremonious firing of Charney this week, the company's board looked the other way and made transparent excuses for his unprofessional and allegedly unlawful personal conduct.

While they obviously have affection for their father, they just as obviously have no desire to spend time with him, each one cutting short his visit with obvious, even transparent excuses.

Even those who do not expect the president to be Superman can ask for better than such transparent, lame excuses.

Though this is in no way / not at all / a transparent attempt at an excuse, it was a very different time in the '70s / a few decades ago / last Tuesday.