rationalizer

American  

[rash-uhn-uhl-ahyz-er] / ˈræʃ ən əlˌaɪz ər /

noun

rationalizers plural

1. a person who rationalizes, especially one who does so habitually or skillfully.

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• rationalizers
  plural

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Friends say Clinton, a great rationalizer about his own actions, tries in his own mind not to stay angry at others.

From Time Magazine Archive

Miss Thompson, ever a brilliant rationalizer of ideas, says that her plan developed largely from conversations with German Credit Expert Moritz Schlesinger, friend of the late great Refugee Worker Dr. Fridtjof Nansen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not to the rationalizer, but to the believer.

From The Church, the Schools and Evolution by Conant, J. E. (Judson Eber)

Newman says nothing of the emotions but appeals only to the reason, while, curiously enough, the rationalizer in religion emphasizes the emotions.

From Religion And Health by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

And then there were the rationalizers, a vocal minority who claimed the Blue Jays “were never in it anyways,” and that the club was “just used as leverage” for Ohtani’s record-breaking contract in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

He ignored Clinton’s explanation that her statement—which continued, “There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind”—was a warning to rationalizers and would-be copycats.

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2015

In the words of old Alexander Dana Noyes, financial editor of the New York Times, the ready rationalizers of the market's behavior were "completely nonplussed."

From Time Magazine Archive

This is the dogmatic ideal, the postulate, uncriticised, undoubted, and unchallenged, of all rationalizers in philosophy.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William