apologist
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- n a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution
an apologist for capital punishment
- For all their clever manipulations, the military junta could not paint the human right activist as an apologist of the West.
- In her own country Bindow is regarded as an apologist for the authoritarian regime.
- He was also a stubborn apologist for communism, Stalin-style.