apologist
Example Sentences
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Now that they see where the popular winds are blowing on Ukraine, the furious backpedaling by some of Mr. Putin’s biggest apologists in this country and others comes across as the height of cynical hypocrisy.
From Washington Post
It was, contrary to what Trump apologists would have you believe, a violent, armed, and organized insurrection.
From Salon
Republicans and the apologists know this, which is why they'd rather just talk about how the horse paste is safe.
From Salon
“Every scrap of land that a Confederate apologist walks upon,” he says, “somebody who looks like me has bled and cried and worked and died on. They don’t get to define it.”
From New York Times
In particular, pro-slavery lobbyists and slavery apologists argued that the presence of slavery in ancient Greece and Rome was what allowed the two empires to become pinnacles of civilization.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
