self-justification

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Self-justification
Self-justification describes how, when a person encounters cognitive dissonance, or a situation in which a person's behavior is inconsistent with their beliefs, that person tends to justify the behavior and deny any negative feedback associated with the behavior.

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self-justification

Noun
1. a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.; "he kept finding excuses to stay"; "every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job"; "his transparent self-justification was unacceptable"
(synonym) excuse, alibi, exculpation
(hypernym) defense, defence, vindication
(hyponym) extenuation, mitigation


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self-justification
self-justification /'self,dʤʌstifi'keiʃn/
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