Self-justification

Definition: Self-justification

Self-justification

Noun

1. A defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.; "he kept finding excuses to stay"; "every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job"; "his transparent self-justification was unacceptable".

Commercial Usage: Self-justification

Domain	Title
Books	Proustian Passions: The Uses of Self-Justification for a LA Recherche Du Temps Perdu (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Self-justification

"Self-justification" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Self-justification" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translations: Self-justification

Language		Translations for "self-justification"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		自我辨解. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		自己弁護 (excuse). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		じ�"べ�"�" (excuse). (various references)

Korean		자기 합리�". (various references)

Pig Latin		elf-justificationsay

Vietnamese		sự tự biện hộ, sự tự b� o chữa. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Self-justification

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-f-i-i-i-j-l-n-o-s-s-t-t-u"
	-3 letters: justifications.
	-4 letters: felicitations, fictionalises, justification.
	-5 letters: elicitations, felicitation, fictionalise, infelicitous.
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