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feeble excuse

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meanings of feebleand excuse


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feeble
adjective
uk /ˈfiː.bəl/ us /ˈfiː.bəl/
weak and without energy, strength, ...
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excuse
noun[C]
uk /ɪkˈskjuːs/ us /ɪkˈskjuːs/
a reason that you give to explain why you did ...
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Examples of feeble excuse


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That is a feebleexcuse.
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With this feebleexcuse, he assumes that he is explaining the faulty passages in bluebooks and papers, passages which are vague, even incoherent.
I am sorry if that sounds rather a feebleexcuse.
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Will he use that same feebleexcuse again?
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This is farcical, and a feebleexcuse for avoiding for another year—and who knows how many years after that?
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That is a pretty feebleexcuse for policy-making.
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I find this a very lame and feebleexcuse.
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That is a feebleexcuse for imposing a guillotine.
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This seems to me to be about the most feebleexcuse that could be advanced.
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Or is that reason a feebleexcuse to divide the system again so that a few schools can have a privilege that is not permitted to the many?
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It is simply not adequate for government or the executive to make that sort of feebleexcuse to try to get away from the responsibility for changes in policy.
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That goes for people in a position of power—architects and engineers in their thinking about access and in giving fire regulations as a feebleexcuse when it need not be.
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That is a feebleexcuse.
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They must be focused on their task of providing what they should provide, and not just be able to walk away without doing anything, muttering some feebleexcuse.
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That is a very feebleexcuse.
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It was a feebleexcuse.
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When everything unexpectedly and spectacularly fell apart, there were some feeble excuses and recriminations from the two principal actors in the drama that were part comedy and part tragedy.
We hear some feeble excuses for inaction, but £3·3 billion is a formidable sum if properly deployed.
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I never give feeble excuses; my explanations are always telling and to the point.
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I have never heard such feeble excuses in all my life; it is time to get this done.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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