Definitions
a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution
Word origin
From apology + -ist, from French apologiste.
Used in a sentence
“[…] he will appear to many of the more speculatively minded intellectuals merely as a timid apologist of things as they are; at the same time he will be dismissed by the men of affairs as an impractical theorist.”
“A genocide denier is an apologist for the next genocide. […] Mr. Handke is the Bob Dylan of genocide apologists.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Defender of a position”9 letters
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