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make excuses

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I suppose, if we need to make excuses for him, we could blame his writers.

Dickson says many of the abused women whom she helps also make excuses for staying in an unacceptable relationship.

I had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for me not doing the right thing.

Yet the reaction of many left-wing commentators is to make excuses for the Mullahs as cravenly as they can.

Perhaps one could make excuses for the two Republicans that Obama picked.

I didn't come here to make excuses—or to receive rebukes, John Barclay.

To such readers as regard such things as utterly mean, it is almost useless to make excuses which they will not accept.

"Jack gets so carried away by things of the moment," said Nan, always ready to make excuses for her little sister.

I cried, giving way to temper because he should believe he might make excuses for his treachery.

Mrs. Wardlaw will begin to think I am lying to get out of helping with refreshments if I have to make excuses again tonight.

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On this page you'll find 56 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to make excuses, such as: decline, ignore, protest, rebuff, reject, and turn down.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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