Cause and Excuse

Cause

Cause noun - Someone or something responsible for a result.

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Excuse and cause are semantically related in reason topic. In some cases you can use "Excuse" instead a noun "Cause".

Nearby Words: caused, causation, causeless, causative, causal

Excuse noun - An explanation that frees one from fault or blame.

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Cause and excuse are semantically related in grounds topic. Sometimes you can use "Cause" instead a noun "Excuse".

Nearby Words: excusing, excused, excusable

good	good cause	good excuse
exact	exact cause	exact excuse
usual	usual cause	usual excuse
common	common cause	common excuse
Other adjectives: sufficient, valid, obvious, actual, real, big, great, little, bad, main, partial, new, major, possible, less, official, different.

You were a gang of destroyers ravaging the galaxy in the name of a cause you'd forgotten, except when you needed an excuse.

Source: Comic Book / The Transformers: Dark Cybertron
Ungrateful Bastard: Soundwave has been nothing but loyal to Galvatron, and the cause in general, but Galvatron still wants an excuse to kill him.

Source: Fan Fic / Eugenesis
They use this as an excuse to hurt themselves and cause each other pain in their sketches.

Source: Series / The Electric Company (1971)

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