Examples of self-justifying in a Sentence
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The fiction was a flimsy dramatic framework for his voice, which, in his recent movies, has become strained, vain, confined as if to an official self-promotional, self-justifying role.
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2024
Traditionalists don’t bother; the study of Torah is self-justifying.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
The Chinese Communists were outraged that Tojo and other defendants had been allowed to make self-justifying speeches in court and to be defended by able U.S. lawyers.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
And so climate-minded consumers and the mining industry are locked in a self-justifying embrace.
—Seyward Darby, Longreads, 11 July 2023
Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2024
Traditionalists don’t bother; the study of Torah is self-justifying.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
The Chinese Communists were outraged that Tojo and other defendants had been allowed to make self-justifying speeches in court and to be defended by able U.S. lawyers.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
And so climate-minded consumers and the mining industry are locked in a self-justifying embrace.
—Seyward Darby, Longreads, 11 July 2023
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“Self-justifying.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-justifying. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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