Excuse
Excuse verb - To dismiss as of little importance.
Vent
Vent verb - To find emotional release for.
How words are described
| usual | usual excuse | usual vent |
| simple | simple excuse | simple vent |
| massive | massive excuse | massive vent |
| big | big excuse | big vent |
| Other adjectives: little, flimsy, handy. | ||
Common collocations
| people | excuse people | vent people |
Both words in one sentence
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Cello manages to startle Kevin while he's gazing at the showering girls through the vent, and he makes up a lame excuse that he was just picking up some change he dropped.
Source: Film / The Invisible Maniac -
Of course, he was just looking for an excuse to vent his sexual frustration than anything else.
Source: Wife-Basher Basher -
Skip forward a few chapters, and she's suddenly alive to be used as a hostage by Danik with the excuse of using the delivery vent (despite the fact that the said vent was further away than the jump to Isaac she insisted she couldn't make).
Source: Video Game / Dead Space 3
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Vent and Excuse. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/excuse/vent
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