apologist
Example Sentences
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Both are apologists for the mediocrity of U.S. public education that is top-heavy with leftist administrators.
From Washington Post
"My 45-year-old brother was on his death bed, and I couldn't be there for him and my parents. And I was being called a regime apologist online," Farnaz says.
From BBC
Many of the Republican radicals who seized control of the House last week also voted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, and they have been vocal apologists for the Jan. 6 insurrectionists.
From Seattle Times
And I said, in a very sort of apologist way, said, “Well, it’s Mahler’s Fifth.”
From Los Angeles Times
“By no means a Khmer Rouge apologist, he presented a straight, unvarnished picture of the past and present, and confronted Pol Pot with the evidence that he was a mass murderer.”
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
