Buy and Excuse

Buy

Buy verb - To get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for.

Excuse and buy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Excuse" instead a verb "Buy".

Nearby Words: buyer, buying

Excuse

Excuse verb - To dismiss as of little importance.

Buy and excuse are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Buy" instead a verb "Excuse".

Nearby Words: excusing, excused, excusable

How words are described

old old buy old excuse
good good buy good excuse
best best buy best excuse
real real buy real excuse
Other adjectives: big, bad, terrible, new, random, different.

Common collocations

time buy time excuse time
food buy food excuse food

Both words in one sentence

  • Even Speedwagon didn't buy into his Freudian Excuse; he was raised in similar circumstances to Dio, and he could tell Dio was a bad apple just by his smell.
  • Video Game / Red Orchestra Excuse Plot: Don't buy Heroes of Stalingrad for it's singleplayer campaign unless you want to be very underwhelmed.
  • Wisteria is about a police officer that finds an excuse to buy flowers every day just to see the shop owner blush.
Cite this Source
Excuse and Buy. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/buy/excuse
Buy & Excuse. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/buy/excuse>.
Excuse or Buy. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/buy/excuse.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "buy" and "excuse" have occurred on timeline