excuse
verb (used with object)
to regard or judge with forgiveness or indulgence; pardon or forgive; overlook (a fault, error, etc.).
self-excusing
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a word derived from
excuse.
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
This was the tenor of his thought—of his self-excusing, it might be.
From What Necessity Knows by Lily Dougall
All this is mere rhetoric, and full of clever self-excusing.
From The Man Shakespeare by Frank Harris
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 Edgar Fawcett
