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self-justifying

[ self-juhs-tuh-fahy-ing, self- ]

adjective

  1. offering excuses for oneself, especially in excess of normal demands.
  2. automatically adjusting printed or typed lines to fill a given space, especially to conform to a rigid margin.


self-justifying

adjective

  1. offering excuses for one's behaviour, often when they are not called for
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

The rules which obtain among themselves appear to them self-evident and self-justifying.

The presentation of facts is self-justifying only when the facts are developed in their true proportion.

And it is of the nature of vanity and arrogance, if unchecked, to become cruel and self-justifying.

And in these days of his first devotion to Romola he needed a self-justifying argument.

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