The Best Excuse

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
TBE
Pronunciation
/ðə bɛst ɪkˈskjuz/
Category
Internet
Related Field
Chat

Examples in Context

  1. The best excuse I have come across recently was made by a senior executive who cancelled an important meeting with a colleague, claiming that a legal issue has come up.
  2. And if, however, they forget to make romantic gestures for the special day, the best excuse, in Gu's words, is that they say every day with your true love is Valentine's Day.
  3. The best excuse that can be made for avarice is, that it generally prevails in old men, or in men of cold tempers, where all the other affections are extinct;
  4. Smartphones are the best excuse yet devised for procrastination.
  5. That is the best late excuse you've ever come up with.

Other meanings of TBE