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 Translation for 'excuses' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   an excuse | excuses
VERB   to excuse | excused | excused
excusing | excuses
vafningar {k.ft}excuses
viðbárur {kv.ft}excuses
undanbrögð {hv.ft}excuses
undanbragðalaust {adv}without excuses
unverified yfirklór {hv}poor excuses
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Usage Examples English
  • He seemingly never cares about their troubles and works, and always finds excuses to procrastinate their expedition.
  • Austin visited Harvard and Berkeley in the mid-fifties, in 1955 delivering the William James Lectures at Harvard that would become "How to Do Things With Words", and offering a seminar on excuses whose material would find its way into "A Plea for Excuses".
  • About a stubborn gang leader and his subordinate and how they deal with the police when their crimes are discovered using mindless excuses.
  • In both variants, she is miserable in the Sun's house and makes up excuses.
  • As a manager in Italy, Mazzarri became known for the excuses for poor performances that he made during post-match interviews.

  • The underdog describes the part of an individual which makes excuses explaining why these demands should not be met.
  • After Moe refers to Homer as "heavyset", he excuses himself by saying "You ain't no, uh, Tommy Tune".
  • “Take off excuses in the basil of excuses,” ( Original title: Khalae aleadhaar fi rayhan aleadhar )a collection of poetry.
  • dissertation on the general topic of excuses in criminal law, with a special emphasis on the excuses of mistake and ignorance of fact.
  • The marchers carried three banners: the first one stated "Stop excuses.

  • Ahmad used excuses to delay paying tribute, and as a result the Persians could not pay their troops in Muscat and many deserted.
  • The author spoke about her theory of "no excuses" on PBS in an October 2010 interview, telling host Bonnie Erbe, "In so many ways, this is women's moment.
  • Daoist "bigu" practices created excuses to quit the agricultural-based Chinese society in which grains were necessary for basic food, ancestral sacrifices, and tax payments.
  • Stapel controlled the data in his lab, and when students asked to see the raw data, they were often given excuses.
  • In any event, we’d like to note some of the excuses they gave the reporters.

  • Frederick Douglass had written an article noting three eras of "Southern barbarism" and the excuses that Whites claimed in each period.
  • During the conscription period opinion towards the HPA became very negative and it caused many young men to make excuses on why they should not be drafted (mainly fake medical excuses).
  • Less honest persons: 1 they report a higher amount of dishonest behavior 2 they are more prone to find excuses for dishonest behavior 3 they are more prone to name excuses or reasons for theft 4 they think often about theft 5 they see often dishonest behavior as acceptable 6 they are often impulsive 7 they are prone to punish themselves and others severely.
  • External self-justification refers to the use of external excuses to justify one's actions.
  • (Latin for "ignorance of the law excuses not"), or [...] ("ignorance of law excuses no one"), is a legal principle holding that a person who is unaware of a law may not escape liability for violating that law merely by being unaware of its content.

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