A defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
1 And the speech was long on self - justification on phone tapping and Iraq.
2 He might have answered her in kind, but self - justification passed his power.
3 The second faction against our Mother Tongue springs from a malicious self - justification .
4 THAT was what came of my intended self - justification and plea for mercy!
5 Why, I shall be forced, in self - justification , to carry through the farce!'
6 The exercise, however, offered Ministers a platform for self - justification and obfuscation.
7 You know all the arguments, all the self - justification of those days.
8 Now he exclaimed in self - justification : Why, I war sure, plumb sure, I thought.
9 It was a last attempt at self - justification , at moderating his defeat.
10 There was no attempt at self - justification for these sinister reflections-theyneeded no justification.
11 Confronted with the gracious figure, how should he think of self - justification !
12 This, of course, is the ultimate self - justification of the colonialist.
13 Lady Louisa Barking could not control a movement of self - justification .
14 Even more than photography, the ready-made object struck at the heart of painting's self - justification .
15 It was a contemptuous denial of her own flimsy self - justification .
16 He was at it again, back at his eternal self - justification .
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