Buy
Buy verb - To get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for.
Excuse
Excuse verb - To dismiss as of little importance.
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
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.
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Excuse Plot: Don't buy Heroes of Stalingrad for it's singleplayer campaign unless you want to be very underwhelmed.
Source: Video Game / Red Orchestra - Wisteria is about a police officer that finds an excuse to buy flowers every day just to see the shop owner blush.
Source: Fanfic Recs / Attack on Titan
Cite this Source
Excuse and Buy. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/buy/excuse
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Excuse or Buy. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/buy/excuse.
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