self-justifying

[ self-juhs-tuh-fahy-ing, self- ]

adjective

1. offering excuses for oneself, especially in excess of normal demands.
2. automatically adjusting printed or typed lines to fill a given space, especially to conform to a rigid margin.

self-justifying

adjective

1. offering excuses for one's behaviour, often when they are not called for

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-justifying¹

First recorded in 1730–40

Example Sentences

And it was to them, and to some future self-justifying narrative, that Morsi was really speaking.

From The Daily Beast

The rules which obtain among themselves appear to them self-evident and self-justifying.

From Project Gutenberg

The presentation of facts is self-justifying only when the facts are developed in their true proportion.

From Project Gutenberg

And it is of the nature of vanity and arrogance, if unchecked, to become cruel and self-justifying.

From Project Gutenberg

And in these days of his first devotion to Romola he needed a self-justifying argument.

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