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self-exculpatory

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self-exculpatory
adj
intended to excuse oneself from blame or guilt


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His glorious self-promotion in these rancid self-exculpatory memoirs has been given the full blessing of the state he so misserved.
Bobnack 57) As a teacher, I immediately saw this as both self-deceptive and self-exculpatory: self-deceptive because students truly prepared for a test would not fear failing it, and self-exculpatory because it shifts the blame for the anticipated failure from the students (who, after all, "were" ready) to (guess who?
99) Woody Allen's sometimes uncomfortably self-exculpatory comedy about the rights of an artist falls short of his best work, but it does feature a wonderful, Oscar-winning performance by Dianne Wiest as a fading star who begs the playwright not to speak in her presence.
 
 
 
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