It is a lovely restaurant but a sad excuse for a den of iniquity.

Facebook world is a sad, lonely excuse for not having real interaction.

Worse, history provides him a sad excuse for substituting other lives for the one he might be leading.

That he's a sad excuse for a cleanup hitter being paid to carry the team.

Kirk wondered what Spock would say when he told him about this sad excuse for a starship.

Paul - 2 months ago they're both trash, what a sad excuse for a mother.

Brilliant was going to be a sad excuse if for all her cleverness, she couldn't track the kidnappers.

Occurring after some sad excuse for a creature has spent too much time trapped in the hypno-gourd.

Also, this is a sad excuse for journalism.

It's a sad excuse for a movie, but then, it isn't really meant to be one.