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self-justification
noun[ C or U ]
(alsoself justification)uk /ˌself.dʒʌs.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌself.dʒʌs.tə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
a reason, excuse, or explanation that you give for your behaviour or actions:
I feel that what I've written sounds like self-justification.
After a rambling speech to the nation, full of childish self-justifications, he resigned.
We should move away from self justification and openly address equality.
Her awful book is full of self-justification.
He turns every question into one about himself, and every sentence drips with self-justification.
There were some elements of self-justification in what she said.
He is a criminal with a remarkable capacity for self-justification.
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