partial excuse
Example Sentences
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It was harder to keep up with world soccer in those days, but that’s only a partial excuse.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 13, 2019
A loss for United, meanwhile, would add bitter insult to a campaign that has strayed perilously close to ignominy even with mass injuries providing a partial excuse.
From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2016
And if that sounds a little dyspeptic at this moment of supreme national celebration, let me offer a partial excuse.
From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2012
That this misconception was fostered by lenders and politicians is a partial excuse but not a complete one.
From Time Magazine Archive
And even her mother and Constance had an instinctive idea that that face was, at any rate, a partial excuse for her asperity.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold
