Excuse and Inspiration

Excuse

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

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Inspiration and excuse are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Inspiration" instead a noun "Excuse".

Nearby Words: excusing, excused, excusable

Inspiration noun - Arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity.

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Excuse and inspiration are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Excuse" instead a noun "Inspiration".

good	good excuse	good inspiration
best	best excuse	best inspiration
better	better excuse	better inspiration
common	common excuse	common inspiration
Other adjectives: perfect, proper, obvious, popular, actual, real, big, great, little, main, partial, new, major, possible, favorite, go-to.

Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Rupert is disgusted to learn that his musings on inferior humans, which to him were purely rhetorical, were the inspiration (or perhaps just the excuse) for David's murder.

Source: Theatre / Rope
Snake was supposed to be a likeable anti-hero just like his inspiration, but unlike his namesake he didn't have as much of a context to act the way he did (Snake Plissken at least had the excuse of living in a crime-filled post-apocalyptic future).

Source: Designated Hero
The ex-Daily Mirror political editor and UK political adviser Alastair Campbell, New Labour titan and inspiration behind Malcolm Tucker, gives this as an excuse for his first journalistic appointment: Writing (possibly autobiographical) pornography for Penthouse Forum.

Source: I Was Young and Needed the Money

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