self-exculpatory

British  

adjective

1. intended to excuse oneself from blame or guilt

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Example Sentences

The creation of Wells Fargo museums was part of a larger corporate trend that wasn’t entirely about self-exculpatory presentations of history.

From Washington Post

“Whatever flaws I have in my moral makeup,” claims the unnamed narrator of James Lasdun’s brilliant new book, “Afternoon of a Faun,” “the self-exculpatory urge has never been among them.”

From The New Yorker

Already, among the Brexiters, there is his self-exculpatory narrative: it wasn’t us, m’lud, who brought our country to this disgraceful state.

From The Guardian

The D.O.J. provides partial transcripts of some of those interrogations, in which internal-affairs officers seemed to prompt accused officers to give self-exculpatory answers.

From The New Yorker

The interview – at times frank, at other points self-exculpatory, and with moments of prolonged sobbing and even howling – comes days before a South African judge will sentence Pistorius for murder.

From The Guardian