self-justification
- n a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
his transparent self-justification was unacceptable
- Mostly the book is an exercise in self-justification and a series of mud pies flung at his family.
- Through the psychology of self-justification, he compulsively seeks power, coveting it not for what it can accomplish but for its own sake.
- But this display of mood-altering confession and self-justification was the real Nixon, in his TV marathon with Frost in 1977, three years after he left the White House in disgrace.