Excuse and Sink

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Excuse verb - To dismiss as of little importance.

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

Nearby Words: excusing, excused, excusable

Sink verb - To become worse or of less value.

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Excuse and sink are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Excuse" instead a verb "Sink".

Nearby Words: sinking, sinker

old	old excuse	old sink
solid	solid excuse	solid sink
standard	standard excuse	standard sink
convenient	convenient excuse	convenient sink
Other adjectives: poor, actual, real, massive, big, excellent, new, major.

In one episode, she comments that she intends to go home, put on some sexy underwear, and rip out her sink so as to have an excuse to invite the sexy new building superintendent over.

Source: Pizza Boy Special Delivery
Later, when his father, the King, commands him to come home from an expedition in the home continent of the Scourge, he has hired thugs sink his own ships and blames the whole thing on them to get an excuse to disobey the order.

Source: Knight Templar / Video Games
The show tried to mitigate this by bringing us Kaguya, a Bigger Bad Physical God, who comes out of nowhere to be a Hate Sink and retroactively excuse the other villains' crimes.

Source: Glurge

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