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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some poor excuse for a man hit her last night."

"It seems like this poor excuse for a human being has us over a barrel."

You sir are a poor excuse for speaker of the house.

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

He was a pathetic failure, a poor excuse for a man.

It's a poor excuse for a 'review' and I really was expecting more from the results.

The same poor excuse may be made for the organs of the Vatican.

Some poor excuse for a civil engineer was probably laughing all the way to the bank.

The Broncos have a poor excuse for a defense with seven new starters from last season's 9-7 team.

He is a poor excuse for a human being.

It was, he had to admit, a pretty poor excuse for a carnival.

Being obsessed with a woman was a poor excuse to wed her.

"She deserves that poor excuse for a creature of the night."

What poor excuses for a women some these slores are.

Foul-tempered sort he was, and a real poor excuse for a cook.

"I suppose we're going up that poor excuse for a trail?"

More than a few have called me a poor excuse for a priest, but that was never why."