Until there just wasn't any response possible, and then she'd tell him he was a damned poor excuse for a man.

He did not want to kill this poor excuse for a man.

That is a poor excuse for such an abuse of power.

This poor excuse for a bed is too hard to sleep on anyway?

"Some people might think that was a pretty poor excuse."

"A poor excuse, especially from a man who already has more than enough of the world's goods."

Perhaps it was a poor excuse, but he could not go through that again.

I had been on that poor excuse for a road a couple of times in the past.

I now find him a poor excuse for a man and a complete ar$e.

However, I took her by the hand, a poor excuse being better than none.