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excuse English

Meaning excuse meaning

What does excuse mean?
Definitions in simple English

excuse

You say, "excuse me" when you have done something rude, You say, "excuse me" when you want to get someone's attention. You say, "excuse me" when you want somebody to move. You say, "excuse me" when you didn't hear somebody very well and you want them to repeat themselves. If you excuse someone, you forgive them. If you excuse someone, you allow them to avoid doing something.

excuse

An excuse is a reason for not doing something or for doing something bad. There is no excuse for hitting your sister. Do you have an excuse for being late?

excuse

(= alibi, self-justification) a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc he kept finding excuses to stay every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job his transparent self-justification was unacceptable accept an excuse for Please excuse my dirty hands (= explain) serve as a reason or cause or justification of Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work Her recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again grant exemption or release to Please excuse me from this class (= rationalize, rationalise) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior he rationalized his lack of success ask for permission to be released from an engagement (= condone) excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with excuse someone's behavior She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities a note explaining an absence he had to get his mother to write an excuse for him (= apology) a poor example it was an apology for a meal a poor excuse for an automobile

Synonyms excuse synonyms

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Topics excuse topics

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Conjugation excuse conjugation

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excuse · verb

Examples excuse examples

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Simple sentences

Excuse me. Can I get by here?
Excuse my clumsiness.
Excuse me, I'm a foreigner and I don't understand Czech all that well.
Good afternoon. Excuse me, I'm looking for the Loreta.
It doesn't matter what excuse he gives me, I can't forgive him.
Excuse me, I have a request.
Excuse me, which way is the station?
That's a pathetic excuse.
Excuse me, may I have another cup of tea?
There's no excuse for your acts.
Excuse me, where are the elevators?
Excuse me. Where are the eggs?
Excuse me; allow me to point out three errors in the above article.
You'll have to manufacture some kind of excuse.
How did you come up with such a good excuse?
Your behavior admits of no excuse.
Excuse me, but let me have another look at the photo.
Excuse us for the inconvenience.
If you can't keep your promise, what excuse will you make?
If you will excuse me for a few minutes, I'd like to make a call.
Excuse me for opening your letter by mistake.
I have no excuse.
Excuse me a minute.
Excuse me, but do you need any help?
Excuse me, could I get past?
That's just an excuse.

Movie subtitles

Excuse.
Saying that he does not remember anything. it's the same excuse as Patre!
Clever excuse.
Excuse me, sir, but what exactly does that phrase mean?
Excuse me, I, I need another minute!
Excuse me!
But the crime she committed today.. has no excuse at all.
Please excuse my handshake.
Excuse me?
Excuse me, seamen and women!
Excuse me, miss, I have a bone to pick with you.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I was right about this corset and my m'ladies are about to blow, so.
Would you just excuse me for a second?
CELL PHONE RINGTONE PLAYS CHOPIN'S 'FUNERAL MARCH' Excuse me.
Excuse me, Colonel.
Excuse me, I must take care of Ishmael.
Excuse me, I must go now.
Uh, I guess now that the. the play's over, we don't really have an excuse to hang out anymore.
But excuse me now.
Excuse me.
Fine. -Excuse me.
Excuse me. Are you reciting verse?
Excuse me, your Honor.
Excuse me, Spaulding.
Good excuse.
Excuse me, sweetheart.
Will you excuse me a moment?
Well, excuse me, dear.
It must be afternoon recess-- Excuse me.
Excuse us for the inconvenience!
Excuse me, could you please make it short?
Please excuse me.
Excuse us!
Excuse me, your Majesty.
You get your ass to the most expensive bridal boutique you can find right now, pull out your credit card and get something in a size six that is beautiful and magical and will make everyone cry, you horrendous excuse for a person!

News and current affairs

Robert Rubin and Kent Conrad warned him that the press would not interpret his testimony as being balanced, and that Congress would interpret it as an excuse to abandon fiscal discipline.
Unfortunately, that is a facile excuse.
But celebrations should never become an excuse for complacency.
Of course, releasing political prisoners does not excuse Lukashenko's past excesses.
So there is no excuse for continued inaction.
Weak capacity to absorb aid on the part of recipient countries is no excuse for donor-driven and donor-directed assistance.
None of these explanations is an adequate excuse for the ECB's opposition to deep involuntary restructuring of Greece's debt.
This isn't, of course, an excuse for this crime or for any crime, but it cannot be ignored.
Tudjman's excuse was that Croatia needed to concentrate power for its struggle with Serbian aggression.
Every excuse is made to avoid giving what is needed.
Prior agreement on the scope or outcome should not be a precondition for talks - or an excuse to avoid them - but rather a subject of the negotiations themselves.
But that is no excuse for complacency.
Unfortunately, rapidly falling food prices during the 30-year period since the food crisis of the early 1970's gave governments a convenient excuse for doing little or nothing.
What's France's excuse?
Weapons of mass destruction - nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons - are just that, and no cause can excuse their use.
For the US, energy self-sufficiency is the perfect excuse for a phased withdrawal from the Middle East; freed from energy dependency, America should be able to concentrate on the Pacific.
My apartment mate explained that everyone in her office, in the US Department of Education, had used the excuse of a birthday party to watch the US-Germany match.
The fact that competition policy is the only tooth that bites in Brussels should not be an excuse for preserving a system that defies democracy and seriously lacks transparency.
But, elsewhere in the region, leaders were quick to excuse Russia's invasion and annexation of Crimea, or to argue that Russia is simply too powerful to confront.
But if governments or individuals use this as an excuse to reduce assistance to the world's poorest people, they would only multiply the seriousness of the problem for the world as a whole.
In the short run, we may well see climate-related concerns become the newest excuse for increased trade protectionism.
The survival of artisanal retailers should not be used as an excuse to introduce or uphold business regulations that ultimately protect the incumbent rich.
Nothing can excuse the seeming indifference displayed by our worldwide silence.

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