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flimsy excuse

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meanings of flimsyand excuse


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flimsy
adjective
uk /ˈflɪm.zi/ us /ˈflɪm.zi/
very thin, or easily broken ...
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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 flimsy excuse


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That is not so terrible in itself and it is a flimsyexcuse for hurting many thousands with less than that.
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I find this a flimsyexcuse for what is admittedly an appalling performance by the private steel industry in the capital sector.
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It is going to let in children on some flimsyexcuse.
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What a torrent of scornful invective we should have had and how this flimsyexcuse would have been torn up!
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We have been given a flimsyexcuse for this ceremony, but who is to get the benefit of it?
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I think he was particularly unfair to attempt to dismiss as a flimsyexcuse such a very good reason.
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I could not imagine a more flimsyexcuse or more serious and terrible threat than that.
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I consider this to be a most flimsyexcuse.
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Is not this a flimsyexcuse?
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His resignation was accepted by the managers, but refused by the local education authority on the very flimsyexcuse that he wanted to leave at a month's notice.
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Was there ever a more flimsyexcuse?
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Let us look at that flimsyexcuse.
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The teacher training colleges – for which we have given money – are not being established, with the flimsyexcuse that the region is unable to set up any accounts.
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I have never heard so many flimsy excuses for the loss of £60 million of the taxpayers' money.
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These seem to me excessively flimsy excuses.
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