self-exculpation
- a word derived from exculpation.
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
"We are brother and sister," he said, in self-exculpation.
From The Broom-Squire by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
His self-exculpation in this unwonted privacy was that he could not afford to allow himself to be bothered by questioners until he and Senator Corson could arrange for effectual team-work by another conference.
From All-Wool Morrison by Day, Holman
