self-exculpatory

adjective

1. intended to excuse oneself from blame or guilt

Example Sentences

Yglesias calls it “a self-exculpatory cope” and worries that it’s an electoral dead end: Less-educated people are less knowledgeable and less media literate, and that’s not ideal.

From The Verge

The dinosaur excuse also formed a palpable undercurrent in accused harasser John Hockenberry’s bizarre, self-exculpatory 2018 essay for Harper’s, in which he lamented the way women’s militance around sexual conduct had driven the genders further apart.

From Slate

The creation of Wells Fargo museums was part of a larger corporate trend that wasn’t entirely about self-exculpatory presentations of history.

From Washington Post

“Nonsense from the legacy media, combined with ridiculous claims by the Democrats that a man with William Barr’s record has no credibility and self-exculpatory balderdash from fabulists like John Brennan and James Comey suggest that the real problem they have with the Attorney General is his blindingly obvious integrity,” Mr. Catron noted.

From Washington Times

Barr’s release of the report’s findings, however, went to great lengths to set a narrative that Trump was in the clear and give it time to congeal well before there was any information available to refute Trump’s barrage of self-exculpatory tweets.

From Slate