Meaning of Apologist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who makes an apology.
   broadly, usually
2. One who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution.
   broadly, usually
3. Synonym of apologizer.
   broadly, uncommon

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] 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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