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But she had come up with a weak excuse to tell the others.

It was a weak excuse, but all she could think of.

The bank manager gave us a weak excuse for an under- standing smile.

He makes some weak excuses and she throws a drink in his face.

Frankly, Gregg, that's going to sound like just another weak excuse.

It was a weak excuse, but he hadn't missed the threat.

If she's not dark enough, it's Sparta's weak excuse for a star.

The weak excuse that Lewis was doing it, too?

It also turned out to be about and looking past an opponent and weak excuses.

Pierre cut the reporter short on an obviously contrived weak excuse.

She didn't want kisses offered on the weak excuse of saving her from bad choices.

I think he expected either a flat refusal or weak excuse which he could batter down.

"We've been distracted, needless to say, but that's a weak excuse.

This government is using the rather weak excuse of deficit to dismantle the Welfare State.

Campbell said before the game that "we've thought of" the World Cup explanation, although it might be a "weak excuse."

How do you expect me to listen to this weak excuse of scientifically proven nonsense when its unsound by nature?

That was a weak excuse, Kirk knew.

Procrastination sets in: jobs that ought to be done are left to pile up; weak excuses made to avoid doing anything difficult.

Unnerby started to make some weak excuse, stopped.

Nevertheless, Nana was angry, and sniffed at her weak excuse for leaving in the middle of her election campaign.

You pulled Hope and Faith into the communications building with you using a very weak excuse."

He said this was a "very weak excuse" for ABC News to run the report a day early.

The added equipment is used as a weak excuse to explain the apparent rise in slashing and high-sticking incidents.

Temporal lobe syndromes are discussed more accurately later in the book, but that is a weak excuse for this early error.

It seemed a weak excuse.