Example Sentences

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Four crucial dynamics were highlighted here: self-excusing, blame-shifting, gaslighting and normalization of the abnormal or aberrant behavior.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2016

But his portrayal of flabby, feckless, self-excusing Hialmar is hardly less so.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was in vain that a troop of self-excusing pleas sprang to battle against her shamed afterthought.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

And with this self-excusing sophistry he darted up the brook.

From In Happy Valley by Fox, John

This was the tenor of his thought—of his self-excusing, it might be.

From What Necessity Knows by Dougall, Lily