apologist
Example Sentences
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Chesterton, the Catholic apologist, is said to have remarked.
He has been denounced as a champion of imperialism, a sentimental traditionalist, a shallow Christian apologist.
When useful idiots play along, the hypocrisy is double: Perpetrators pretend to be humane, and apologists pretend to believe them.
I am a self-described dog apologist and would probably spend more money on my pet’s safety and comfort than my own.
From MarketWatch
Ms. Jackson is no apologist—her James has flaws aplenty—but where prior historians offered snide caricature, she portrays a complex leader who was “intelligent, resilient, idiosyncratic, irascible, guileful and witty.”
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