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self-justifying
[ self-juhs-tuh-fahy-ing, self- ]
adjective
- offering excuses for oneself, especially in excess of normal demands.
- automatically adjusting printed or typed lines to fill a given space, especially to conform to a rigid margin.
self-justifying
adjective
- offering excuses for one's behaviour, often when they are not called for
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Word History and Origins
Origin of self-justifying1
First recorded in 1730–40
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Example Sentences
And it was to them, and to some future self-justifying narrative, that Morsi was really speaking.
From The Daily Beast
The rules which obtain among themselves appear to them self-evident and self-justifying.
From Project Gutenberg
The presentation of facts is self-justifying only when the facts are developed in their true proportion.
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And it is of the nature of vanity and arrogance, if unchecked, to become cruel and self-justifying.
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And in these days of his first devotion to Romola he needed a self-justifying argument.
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