self-justification in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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self-justification [Am ˈˌsɛlf ˌdʒəstəfəˈkeɪʃən, Brit sɛlfdʒʌstɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n] N U

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self-justification in the PONS Dictionary

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With a philosophical eye, she sees through fuss and finery and self-justification.
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They said such conversations can evoke such emotions as self-justification, self-righteousness, guilt and denial, or anger and sadness.
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Pity them for their task, however, as they wade through a mountain of dicey data whose only purpose seems to be self-justification.
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This was a po-faced wallow through a treacle of self-justification.
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About former members he states that some of these adult members who are prone to bias sometimes learn to rehearse an atrocity story to meet their need for self-justification.
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His supposed loyalty to his family, though, is only a thin tissue of self-justification.
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His other main character fault was to see events as the result of providence which can easily led him into self-justification of his sometimes harsh decisions.
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In both cases, there was a smidgen of truth in their self-justification.
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That is not contrition; it is self-justification disguised as repentance.
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His memoirs, unlike those of many of his contemporaries, contained no element of self-justification or political statement.
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