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beg to be excused

VERB

decline

Synonyms

STRONGEST

deny dismiss refuse reject

STRONG

abjure abstain avoid balk bypass demur desist disapprove forbear forgo gainsay nix refrain renounce reprobate repudiate shy spurn

WEAK

don't buy not accept not hear of not think of pass on send regrets turn down turn thumbs down

Antonyms

STRONGEST

accept allow approve grant sanction

STRONG

agree continue go along indulge want

WEAK

say yes

Example Sentences

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There's really nothing left for me but to beg to be excused.

From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various

But were he to become insistent and ask me to look into the matter for myself, I should beg to be excused.

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord

Some men have eaten grizzly liver, but I beg to be excused.

From The Young Alaskans in the Rockies by Hough, Emerson

I replied that I was in my Farce dress, and must beg to be excused.

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John

We beg to be excused from coming to-night.

From The ghosts of their ancestors by Mills, Weymer Jay

beg to be excused

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