Excuses and Urges

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Urges and excuses are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Urges" instead a noun "Excuses".

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Excuses and urges are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Excuses" instead a noun "Urges".

Gudmund meanwhile invites them to a banquet and urges them to try the fruits in his orchard, forcing Thorkill to contrive excuses for not eating anything.

Source: Literature / Gesta Danorum
Hypocrite: In the TV show, Poison Ivy advocates the causes of environmentalism and feminism, but those are only excuses to display her real sadistic urges of control and manipulation.

Source: Comic Book / The Batman Adventures
Evidence to the contrary is dismissed with convoluted excuses when possible, ignored when not (as with the diagram of his brain in which one area was labeled "Repressed Homosexual Urges").

Source: Selective Obliviousness

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