The concern was a lie, of course, a flimsy excuse.

IT is summer, when some of us will look for any flimsy excuse to be outside.

With that flimsy excuse for a dress, she might as well have been naked.

Companies have not used strategic giving as a flimsy excuse to get stingy, though.

Her flimsy excuse was that the new data raised no question about the innocence of the defendants.

He's not one who can be put off with a flimsy excuse.

Eventually, I give up making fires altogether, on the flimsy excuse that spring is almost here.

I'll think up some flimsy excuse to get away and then I'll come back to the hotel.

Naturally he'd been given some flimsy excuse, but Roberto had learned long ago the real reason.

All they need is a flimsy excuse to not do something for the first time.