self-exculpatory
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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“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 • Apr. 30, 2019
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 • Jan. 15, 2017
Medivet answered each accusation with a self-exculpatory statement written in what might be termed Panoramese: "Medivet disapproves of inappropriate comments about animal patients."
From The Guardian • Jul. 23, 2010
His words were self-exculpatory; his demeanor did not convince one of his innocence.
From Time Magazine Archive
And that was one of the lovely things said to her that night she did not report in her long, explanatory, self-exculpatory letter to Percy.
From Under Fire by Cox, C. B.
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