rationalizer
noun
a person who rationalizes, especially one who does so habitually or skillfully.
rationalizers
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pluralof rationalizer.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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 William James
