📖 Определения и значения для слова excuse
📒 a reason, either true or invented, that you give to explain or defend your behaviour
- Late again! What's your excuse this time?
- I tried desperately to think of a good excuse.
- a lame/feeble/poor/flimsy excuse
📒 a good reason that you give for doing something that you want to do for other reasons
- Eating ice cream for a sore throat isn't really a cure, but I like it, so any excuse!
- excuse for something It's just an excuse for a party.
- excuse for doing something Any occasion is a good excuse for having a barbecue.
📒 a very bad example of something
- Why get involved with that pathetic excuse for a human being?
- a sorry excuse for a man
- She's a pitiful excuse for an actress.
📒 a note written by a parent or doctor to explain why a student cannot go to school or somebody cannot go to work