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apologist
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    "apologist for murder" and "fomenter of lawlessness."†  (source)
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    He was, thus, an example of that sad liberalism of the village—an advanced thinker among the Methodists, a bearer of the torch at noon, an apologist for the toleration of ideas that have been established for fifty years.†  (source)
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    Now is there civil war within the soul: Resolve is thrust from off the sacred throne By clamorous Needs, and Pride the grand-vizier Makes humble compact, plays the supple part Of envoy and deft-tongued apologist For hungry rebels.†  (source)
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    Even more important, they began to question the logic of the Southern apologists for slavery.†  (source)
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    Apologists for slavery at the time often described benevolent farming operations in the West Indies, indulgently caring for slaves' every need, but Clarkson's evidence proved that conditions were often revolting.†  (source)
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    English youth have been so educated time out of mind, and we have hundreds of thousands of apologists and admirers of injustice, misery, and brutality, as perpetrated among children.†  (source)
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    The theologians, the apologists, and their kin the metaphysicians, the high-handed statesmen, and others, no longer interest me.†  (source)
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    A certain amount of perversity was to be allowed for in a young lady whose lover had thrown her over; but not such an amount as would prove inconvenient to his apologists.†  (source)
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    Both Gant and Eliza were fluent apologists for economic independence: all the boys had been sent out to earn money at a very early age.†  (source)
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    If I write about the Latino mayor in Los The Soloist in Angeles, regardless of what I say, good or bad, I can expect mail calling me a kiss-ass Mexican sleazeball and apologist, or worse.†  (source)
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