rationalization

No, this is a victory for corporate greed digging its claws into whatever façade of a rationalization it can get within its grasp.

At the same time, there are those who ricochet between denial and rationalization.

But that sort of rationalization may be better tackled by psychologists than the justices of the Supreme Court.

But the scapegoat is convenient—and the rationalization is complacent.

Today she has a much different perspective, calling that decision many years ago “all justification and rationalization.”

The rods were so thin they hardly warranted a package of their own, but that is rationalization, as you call it.

Now after this rationalization you have made, Mrs. Paine, it is your recollection that you did not make such a comment?

It is not the rationalization of Jewish dogma that he is interested in, nor the reconciliation of religion and philosophy.

"That's a childish rationalization, Tex," she said with a lot more sharpness than I had expected.

They have not the ideal of progress which dominates the Western nations, and affords a rationalization of our active impulses.