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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 Dougall, Lily

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

From In Happy Valley by Fox, John

Yet the question would be answered; and without palliation, self-excusing, or retort, he meditated.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various