Sentence examples for wretched excuse from inspiring English sources

"Every single time we hear some other wretched excuse about why we can't do X, Y or Z, we should say it's just inexcusable … As a society we should be saying that this is not on.

But the most wretched excuse for under-treating pain and other agonies comes from pious, sanctimonious zealots.

The German excuse for the wretched under-achievement of their presidency of the European Council is that they were overtaken by Kosovo.

The formerly forlorn Nets are magically in the N.B.A. finals, but even in the parking lot at Continental Arena on Monday morning, even as tickets were selling out, even as the Nets' wretched history was becoming history, people were still making excuses.

Newtown is wretched proof of the utter vacuity of the gun lobby's excuses, but every comparison to other industrial nations makes the case as well.

Apparently because it covets this area for settlement expansion, Israel has concocted a series of feeble excuses to drive out Palestinians from villages here or make their lives so wretched that they leave on their own.

And they were wretched.

O wretched state!

Beeber was wretched.

Conditions are wretched.

"I feel absolutely wretched.