1
A very ingenious defence of all kinds of rascality, isn't it?
2
He saw that some ingenious defence of himself was required; but he could find none.
3
I know nothing so contemptible as a mere paradox; a mere ingenious defence of the indefensible.
4
An ingenious defence,-indeed ,theonly one which could by any possibility be suggested, anterior to the days of Choate and somnambulism; but in vain.
5
A flat denial is worth a hundred ingenious defences in which the act is admitted but the attempt is made to explain it away.