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• Like a woefully weak excuse
• Type of duck?
• Like a wobbly duck?
• Type of hobbling duck?
• Hard to believe, as excuses
• Feeble, as excuses go
• Fabric shot through with metallic fibers
• *Defeated incumbent
• Like flimsy excuses
• Not at all believable
• Like a weak joke
• Unfunny, as a joke
• Fabric with a glint
• Like a flimsy excuse
• Injured so that a body-part is permanently damaged