convenient excuse

collocation in English

meaningsofconvenientandexcuse

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convenient
adjective
uk
/kənˈviː.ni.ənt/us
/kənˈviː.ni.ənt/
suitable for your purposes and needs and causing the ...
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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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(Definition ofconvenientandexcusefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconvenient excuse

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This may sometimes serve as aconvenientexcusefor international inaction.
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A benefit and a burden both, autonomy becomes aconvenientexcusefor choosing not to donate; it shields people who recoil from articulating why they have refused.
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For those countries which have no urge to clean up their practices there is aconvenientexcusefor further delay.
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That is merely aconvenientexcuse, which is full of flaws.
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That would be a very easy andconvenientexcuse, and they have in fact used that argument on this occasion.
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I have no doubt that this will form aconvenientexcusefor doing nothing whatsoever for years to come.
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I know that it is aconvenientexcuse, but it is not often a very convincing one.
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I think that that is just aconvenientexcusefor doing it.
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Sometimes it has been aconvenientexcusefor officials who wish to conceal inside information from outside scrutiny.
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If a local authority does not want to do anything—if it wants to push the hidden homeless away and out of sight—the complexity of present legislation provides aconvenientexcuse.
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We attach a lot of importance to this, and we are anxious that it should not be used as a mereconvenientexcusefor evading these rather important questions.
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It was a politicallyconvenientexcuse.
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It is just another of those convenient excuses for intellectual laziness.
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