apologist

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/əˈpɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/

Definition of apologist

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(broadly, usually)One who makes an apology.

“[…] he will appear to many of the more speculatively minded intellectuals merely as a timid apologist of things as they are; at the same time he will be dismissed by the men of affairs as an impractical theorist.”
“A genocide denier is an apologist for the next genocide. […] Mr. Handke is the Bob Dylan of genocide apologists.”

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noun

(broadly, usually)One who makes an apology.

“[…] he will appear to many of the more speculatively minded intellectuals merely as a timid apologist of things as they are; at the same time he will be dismissed by the men of affairs as an impractical theorist.”
“A genocide denier is an apologist for the next genocide. […] Mr. Handke is the Bob Dylan of genocide apologists.”
(broadly, uncommon)One who makes an apology.

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From apology + -ist, from French apologiste.

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