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Meaning of "self-justifying" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SELF-JUSTIFYING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SELF-JUSTIFYING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Self-Justifying is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SELF-JUSTIFYING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of self-justifying in the English dictionary

The definition of self-justifying in the dictionary is offering excuses for one's behaviour, often when they are not called for.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SELF-JUSTIFYING

self-inductive
self-indulgence
self-indulgent
self-indulgently
self-inflicted
self-insurance
self-interest
self-interested
self-interestedness
self-justification
self-knowledge
self-levelling feet
self-levelling foot
self-liquidating
self-loader
self-loading
self-loathing
self-locking
self-love
self-lubricating

WORDS THAT END LIKE SELF-JUSTIFYING

buying
edifying
electrifying
gratifying
horrifying
magnifying
mortifying
mystifying
petrifying
preachifying
qualifying
satisfying
scarifying
speechifying
stultifying
stupefying
terrifying
unedifying
unifying
unsatisfying
unterrifying

Synonyms and antonyms of self-justifying in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «self-justifying» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SELF-JUSTIFYING

Find out the translation of self-justifying to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of self-justifying from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «self-justifying» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

自我辩护
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

autojustificante
570 millions of speakers

English

self-justifying
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्वयं को न्यायोचित ठहरा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

- تبرير الذات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

само- оправдание
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

auto- justificando
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্ব-justifying
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

autojustificative
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berdusta diri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

selbst rechtfertig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自己正当化
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자기 정당화
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyoto
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tự biện hộ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுய நியாயப்படுத்தி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वत: ची समर्थन करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kendi kendine haklı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

auto- giustificare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

samo- uzasadniające
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

само- виправдання
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

auto- justificarea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αυτο - δικαιολογούν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

selfregverdigende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

själv motiverar
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

selvrettferdiggjør
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of self-justifying

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-JUSTIFYING»

The term «self-justifying» is normally little used and occupies the 137.207 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-JUSTIFYING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about self-justifying

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELF-JUSTIFYING»

Discover the use of self-justifying in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to self-justifying and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and ...
In that case, having caught a deeper glimpse of oneself one will lose it in the uproar of self-justifying. We are told to observe self-justifying and not to go with it. Certainly you will be unable to stop mechanical self-justifying, when you catch a ...
Maurice Nicoll, 1996
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Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
Getting Out of the Box The Arbinger Institute. example, certainly it's good to think of others, but who am I thinking of when I'm thinking of myself as the sort of person who thinks of others?” “Yourself, I guess.” “Exactly. So my self-justifying image ...
The Arbinger Institute, 2010
3
On Foundationalism: A Strategy for Metaphysical Realism
According to Chisholm, statements, beliefs, hypotheses, or propositions are self- justifying "if the person's justification for thinking he knows it to be true is simply the fact that it is true," which is equivalent to the claim that "they are neither justified ...
Tom Rockmore, 2004
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Foundations of Logic and Language: Studies in Philosophical ...
It concentrates on the possibility that certain rules may indeed be meaning- giving in character and thus be self-justifying. I consider in this article the conditions — as suggested in the relevant literature — the satisfaction of which by rules make ...
Pranab Kumar Sen, 1990
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish ...
But most of us, most of the time, are neither telling the whole truth nor intentionally deceiving. We aren't lying; we are self-justifying. All of us, as we tell our stories, add details and omit inconvenient facts; we give the tale a small, self- enhancing ...
Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson, 2008
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Normative Qualia and a Robust Moral Realism
Disagreement over a proposition thus does not directly prove that it is not self- justifying. But this is not the only worry provoked by the existence of disagreement over basic moral principles. The second worry that Shafer-Landau discusses is ...
Sharon Hewitt, 2008
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Computational Prospects of Infinity - Part I
The next scaled pointclass after one closed under real quantifiers lies just beyond its envelope, and is given by a self-justifying system. Definition 9.16 A self-justifying system is a countable set A ⊆ P(R) which is closed under complements (in ...
Chi-Tat Chong, 2008
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Epistemology: A Guide
Some reject B on the grounds that claims about how things appear or seem are inherently comparative, which prevents them from being self—justifying. To say that something seems F — where “F” names some characteristic — is to say that it ...
‎2013
9
Welcoming the Stranger: A Public Theology of Worship and ...
This death of self-justifying self results in the gaining of a new identity in Christ. Baptism begins and baptismal discipline continues this conversion.28 Through God's word of promise in baptism, our egocentric, self- justifying self is drowned,  ...
Patrick R. Keifert
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Attraction and Hostility: An Experimental Analysis of ...
Thus, there are three theoretically relevant categories: 1) the choice of self- justifying statements exclusively or with self-equivocating statements, 2) the choice of self-corrective statements exclusively or with self-equivocating ones, and 3) the ...
Albert Pepitone, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELF-JUSTIFYING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term self-justifying is used in the context of the following news items.
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Decade-old deadly traffic accident may lose prosecution's public faith
In its self-justifying, defensive and disconnected pattern of conduct, the prosecution is handing ammunition to its real rivals – powerful, well-connected ... «Haaretz, Jul 15»
2
Liberalism's Self-Justifying Beliefs
Liberalism's Self-Justifying Beliefs. Its opposition to discrimination diverts attention from problems that benefit them. Being against discrimination “has become ... «Aleteia EN, Jul 15»
3
The Debaucherous Secrets of the Goldman Sachs Elevator Are …
It portrayed Goldman employees as self-obsessed, self-justifying, and misogynistic, as well as indifferent to the consequences of the financial crisis. Post-2008 ... «The New Republic, Jul 15»
4
Marriage Done Right: How to deal with addictions
Addicts have long histories of destructive, self-justifying, self-talk, broken self-promises (“I'll never drink again!”), damaged relationships and damage to their own ... «News Sentinel, Jul 15»
5
Sorry, conservatives, but you share an ideology with a bunch of rich …
It primes them to accept self-justifying ideology and surrounds them with people who share that ideology. They come to believe not just that they can get away ... «Vox, Jun 15»
6
How to say a heartfelt apology
While many apologies are insincere or self-justifying, a heartfelt apology can transform an injured relationship. Marsha Maxwell, Deseret News • Modified: April ... «NewsOK.com, Apr 15»
7
Self-Justifying Swedes
One fundamental principle in the years since the financial crisis, with all the bad judgments and policy missteps we've seen, is that nobody ever admits having ... «New York Times, Mar 15»
8
CIA struggled to keep rationalizing brutal interrogations, report shows
... provides an example of how the secret interrogation program from its inception became a self-justifying enterprise that slipped free of the constraints that top ... «Los Angeles Times, Dec 14»
9
The Ferguson Grand Jury's Openness Was a Farce
And he might have pulled it off, but for the bizarre self-justifying ramble that was his press conference. As McCulloch stood in what appeared to be a ... «Slate Magazine, Nov 14»
10
London Theater Review: Kristin Scott Thomas in 'Electra'
Quick lends nicely self-justifying power to Clytemnestra and Liz White brings a notably stable voice of reason to Chrysothemis. But Rickson hasn't found a way of ... «Variety, Oct 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Self-Justifying [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/self-justifying>. Apr 2024 ».
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