Excuse and Trick

Excuse

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

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Trick and excuse are semantically related in reason topic. In some cases you can use "Trick" instead a noun "Excuse", when it comes to topics like evasion, defence, pretext.

Nearby Words: excusing, excused, excusable

Trick

Trick noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.

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Excuse and trick are semantically related in evasion topic. Sometimes you can use "Excuse" instead a noun "Trick", if it concerns topics such as defence, pretext.

Nearby Words: tricky, trickery, trickle, tricked, trickster

Mutual synonyms

subterfuge

How words are described

old	old excuse	old trick
good	good excuse	good trick
best	best excuse	best trick
exact	exact excuse	exact trick
Other adjectives: elaborate, similar, usual, common, standard, obvious, simple, cheap, real, big, great, little, easy, new, useful, possible, classic, last, different, handy, favorite.

Common collocations

people	excuse people	trick people
family	excuse family	trick family
time	excuse time	trick time
anyone	excuse anyone	trick anyone

Both words in one sentence

In addition, he uses any trick or excuse to avoid having to pay them at all, and interestingly enough he almost always gets away with it.

Source: Evil Uncle
To patch this, if a player has already won all but the last trick and is left with only the excuse, it will win the trick regardless, completing the chelem.

Source: Obvious Rule Patch / Card Games
Littlest Cancer Patient: Parodied (like everything else); Benny uses this as an excuse to trick Shobu into forfeiting.

Source: Anime / Duel Masters

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