Besides, the most genuine excuse could not be given without mortally offending Apse & Sons.

She did not relish the thought of being an outlaw with a genuine excuse for her arrest.

Once in the course of the afternoon the servant had had a genuine excuse for entering the room.

I have always pretended to be sick to escape visitors; now, for the first time, I have got a genuine excuse.

She always had a genuine excuse to give boyfriends, so as not to have to spend the night in hotel rooms or strange beds.

Genuine excuses are ash clouds, terrorism, airport closures and airspace closures.

But she was unable to discover any genuine excuses.

He did have genuine excuses when he pulled up lame and Tommy Berry wasn't surprised.

Genuine excuses for her last start when again made to do a mountain of work from a wide gate.

The son of So You Think had genuine excuses when well-beaten two-back so don't read too much into that performance.

She had genuine excuses when seventh in the Caulfield Cup last start, getting a mile back in a very slowly-run affair.

And SDLP Policing Board member Mr Alex Attwood insisted that Sinn Féin no longer could have any genuine excuses for refusing to support the PSNI.