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.
