rationalizing

Example Sentences

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Rationalizing the deaths of millions of Americans is obscene.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2020

Rationalizing away exploitation as inevitable is part of our narrative.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2016

Rationalizing the administration’s response, Chertoff told reporters on Sept. 3 that the disaster had “exceeded the foresight of the planners, and maybe anybody’s foresight.”

From Slate • Sep. 7, 2016

Rationalizing should not be styled the operation of tradition.

From The Canon of the Bible by Davidson, Samuel

Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.

From The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform by Robinson, James Harvey