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Apologizer

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a·pol·o·gize  (-pl-jz)
intr.v. a·pol·o·gized, a·pol·o·giz·ing, a·pol·o·giz·es
1. To make excuse for or regretful acknowledgment of a fault or offense.
2. To make a formal defense or justification in speech or writing.
a·polo·gizer n.
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And beware of the "serial apologizer," who apologizes repeatedly for the same mistakes.
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Baraka once noted that one way to make white institutions "crumble and its apologizers break and run even faster than they are now would be to turn crazy, to bring out a little American Dada, Ornette Coleman style" ("Philistinism" 53).
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For someone who is such a resourceful apologist, Buchanan is a pathetic apologizer.
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