It was a lame explanation, but the best I could come up with.

Perhaps a lame explanation, yet they did not protest it, only seemed glad to have me back.

But these lame explanations are more improbable than the existence of the black art itself and always disgust the reader.

I pulled myself together, made some lame explanation and we went downstairs together.

And apparently she came up with some lame explanation for why that newspaper article didn't mention him.

But to the bill's proponents, that seemed to be a lame explanation.

We are deep in the defense case, and Nelson is saddled with 1, lame explanation for the $25,000 "loan."

"Move around it, then," he said in response to an apparently lame explanation.

They also seemed to see right through all my excuses and lame explanations.

We are, though, given shallow insights, lame explanations and limp excuses.