Crossword-Solution: COPOUT
We have 17 clues for the answer “COPOUT”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Use a flimsy excuse | 1 answer |
| Shirker's excuse | 1 answer |
| Say you have to wash your hair, say | 1 answer |
| A deus ex machina ending, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Dubious defense | 1 answer |
| Evasion of responsibility | 1 answer |
| Lame excuse, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Quit (on) | 1 answer |
| Bad excuse | 2 answers |
| Flimsy excuse | 2 answers |
| Lame excuse | 2 answers |
| Poor excuse | 2 answers |
| Weak excuse | 3 answers |
| Shirk | 16 answers |
| Renege | 39 answers |
| Evasion. | 73 answers |
| pretext | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Quotes with COPOUT (3)
There is a saying that when someone is struck down without warning that he "didn't know what hit him." It's a bit of a copout, providing the excuse that what happened wasn't the individual's fault at all. That it couldn't have been avoided and no one is to blame. Frankly, that's just a bunch of hokey horseshit.
Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an immense copout, an abrogation of responsibility.
Was the whole matter of aptitudes a myth — a copout used by people like me to avoid subjects that would force us to think in Therefore threatening ways?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 33 times in crossword archives (1995–2024).