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