Definition of apologist
:one who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something
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Sunday's episode brought all the Littlefinger apologists out on Twitter, and one of them caught the attention of Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark).
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Bill Kristol accused Tucker Carlson, for no reason, of being an apologist for slavery and an anti-Semite.
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Some historians have said that during Italy's unprovoked invasion of Ethiopia, Balbo's air force dropped bombs and fired machine guns at unarmed citizens (although local apologists for the aviator say that story is a myth).
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White supremacists and Confederate apologists want other white people to join them in their half-baked fantasies of the antebellum South—plantations with white columns, dirt roads framed with Spanish moss, hoop skirts and mint juleps.
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The alt-right apologists in the White House have been at war with the saner members of Team Trump, such as the national security adviser, Gen. H.R. McMaster.
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At every stage, the Journal and other Trump apologists have leaned heavily on the uncertainty of the facts not yet revealed, while disregarding the importance of every previous defense that has been disproven.
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Trump apologists from the anti-anti-Trump school aren’t the only ones who dispute that his suspicious behavior is a manifestation of underlying guilt; many on the left do, too.
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What will such apologists say in this case when the black man is police?
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First Known Use of apologist
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APOLOGIST Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of apologist for English Language Learners
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: a person who defends or supports something (such as a religion, cause, or organization) that is being criticized or attacked by other people
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