rationalizein a sentence
rationalize as in: rationalize bad behavior
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Criminals typically rationalize their behavior. Even when convicted, many blame others for their decisions.rationalize = justify
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She shouldn't have spent so much money on the shoes, but she rationalized the expenditure because they were on sale.rationalized = justified (as good or reasonable)
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I hate that I let myself fall into that mind-set of trying to rationalize his death. (source)rationalize = make seem reasonable
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It seems they are off to Ivanovo to rationalize kulaks and collectivize tractors, and what have you. (source)
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"Is that how you rationalize it?" says Risa, "Making yourself believe we'll be happier?" (source)rationalize = think of a good excuse for
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I was afraid I'd deliberate, ruminate, agonize, rationalize, and talk myself into not going. (source)rationalize = think of an excuse
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This lady's grandson might be facing life imprisonment without parole, but given the overwhelming number of death penalty cases on our docket, I couldn't rationalize taking on his case. (source)rationalize = think of a good excuse for
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He rationalized that he was so bewildered upon his arrival that he allowed such a thing. (source)rationalized = excused bad behavior as reasonable
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She'd always thought he was just rationalizing. (source)rationalizing = using reason to make something bad seem reasonable
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All of these rationalizations smote me as soon as I heard her voice.† (source)
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Tyler talked for a long time, moving through the events quickly but lingering in a wasteland of rationalization and self-recrimination. (source)rationalization = thinking of excuses to explain bad behaviorstandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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Or she rationalizes, "I call him when he calls me." (source)rationalizes = excuses (as good or reasonable)
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Rationalising?† (source)unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it rationalizing.
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IF KENNEDY CAN RATIONALIZE. (source)RATIONALIZE = think of a good excuse for
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But Wes rationalized. I am not actually selling drugs. All I'm doing is talking into a headset. (source)rationalized = used reason to make excuses for bad behavior
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So the part of my brain that was rationalizing all this made me go, all nonchalantly, "Yeah, okay." (source)rationalizing = excusing (as good or reasonable)
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Whenever you overrationalize, Mia, I know you're worried. (source)overrationalize = overthink
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As the ship's artificial night closed in they were each grateful to retire to separate cabins and try to rationalize their thoughts. (source)rationalize = make sense of
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Perhaps each hundred years or so men like them, like me, appeared in society, drifting through; and yet by all historical logic we, I, should have disappeared around the first part of the nineteenth century, rationalized out of existence. (source)rationalized = removed through reasoning
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She went: "You're overrationalizing."
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overrationalizing = overthinking
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