poor+excuse

  • 51cop out — Synonyms and related words: abatement of differences, abstain, abstention, accommodate, accommodation, adjust, adjustment, alibi, anythingarianism, arrangement, bargain, cash in, check out, compose, composition, compound, compromise, concession,… …

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  • 52cover — Synonyms and related words: American plan, European plan, Smyth sewing, a la carte, abri, account for, accouple, accumulate, act, admit, afghan, agglutinate, air cover, air raid, air support, air raid shelter, alibi, altar carpet, altar cloth,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 53cover story — Synonyms and related words: alibi, apology, blind, cloak, color, cover, cover up, device, excuse, facade, feint, front, gloss, guise, handle, lame excuse, locus standi, mask, ostensible motive, poor excuse, pretense, pretension, pretext,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 54cover up — Synonyms and related words: act, act a part, affect, alibi, apology, apply to, assume, be the goat, becloud, befog, blanket, blind, block, bluff, camouflage, canopy, cloak, clothe, cloud, color, conceal, cope, counterfeit, cover, cover story,… …

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  • 55device — Synonyms and related words: AM receiver, AM tuner, AM FM receiver, AM FM tuner, CB, Charlie McCarthy, Fathometer, Flexowriter typewriter, Geiger counter, John Hancock, RDF, X, X ray microscope, ability, achievement, action, ad hoc measure, agency …

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  • 56facade — Synonyms and related words: acting, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, alibi, anteriority, apology, apparent character, appearance, appearances, artificiality, attitudinizing, blind, bluff, bluffing, bold front, border, brave face …

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  • 57feint — Synonyms and related words: acting, aerial tactics, affectation, airborne tactics, alibi, apology, appearance, applied tactics, armored tactics, art, artful dodge, artifice, attitudinizing, bag of tricks, barrier tactics, befooling, blind, bluff …

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  • 58front — Synonyms and related words: CAT, Charlie McCarthy, DMZ, accented, aceldama, act for, acting, advance, advance guard, aerospace, aerosphere, affectation, affectedness, affront, agent, ahead, air, air hole, air mass, air pocket, airhead, airs, airs …

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  • 59gloss — Synonyms and related words: abuse of terms, acting, affectation, afterglow, air glow, alibi, allowance, amplification, analysis, annotate, annotation, apology, apparatus criticus, appearance, apply paint, attitudinizing, bedaub, bedizen, begild,… …

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  • 60guise — Synonyms and related words: MO, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectation, air, algorithm, alibi, angle, apology, apparel, appearance, approach, array, aspect, attack, attire, bearing, bedizenment, behavior, behavior pattern,… …

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