Example Sentences

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This is not something Hughes himself could ever have written about directly: it would have looked too much like self-exculpation.

From The Guardian • Oct. 1, 2015

The Promise is a glossy exercise in self-exculpation.

From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2011

Later it will turn out that this habit of self-exculpation masks a deeper tendency toward self-blame, but in any case Emilia is an interestingly complicated person.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2011

"You told me to do so," cried Anton, in self-exculpation.

From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav

I may add that no voice from heaven sounded, and that I never made any attempt at self-exculpation, or invited my father to sacrifice himself a second time.

From The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy by Cholmondeley, Mary