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self-exculpatory
adjective
- intended to excuse oneself from blame or guilt
Example Sentences
Yglesias calls it âa self-exculpatory copeâ and worries that itâs an electoral dead end: Less-educated people are less knowledgeable and less media literate, and thatâs not ideal.
The dinosaur excuse also formed a palpable undercurrent in accused harasser John Hockenberryâs bizarre, self-exculpatory 2018 essay for Harperâs, in which he lamented the way womenâs militance around sexual conduct had driven the genders further apart.
The creation of Wells Fargo museums was part of a larger corporate trend that wasnât entirely about self-exculpatory presentations of history.
âNonsense from the legacy media, combined with ridiculous claims by the Democrats that a man with William Barrâs record has no credibility and self-exculpatory balderdash from fabulists like John Brennan and James Comey suggest that the real problem they have with the Attorney General is his blindingly obvious integrity,â Mr. Catron noted.
Barrâs release of the reportâs findings, however, went to great lengths to set a narrative that Trump was in the clear and give it time to congeal well before there was any information available to refute Trumpâs barrage of self-exculpatory tweets.
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