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apologist

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++a·pol·o·gist /əˈpɒlədʒɪst $ əˈpɑː-/ noun [countable]  SUPPORT A PERSON, GROUP, OR PLANsomeone who tries to explain and defend an idea, person, or political system 辩护者,辩解者apologist for an apologist for socialism 社会主义的辩护者
Examples from the Corpus
apologistHe has been neither an apologist nor an alarmist.Critics who decry regulatory costs are dismissed as deluded apologists for corporate rapacity.They are mere apologists for the existing system.Today the Opposition revealed themselves as dinosaurs because they acted as mere apologists for the old established order.The increase in efficiency promised by the apostles of reengineering and the apologists for the great merger wave remains invisible.
a·pol·o·gist nounChineseSyllable
tries someone explain who idea, defend Corpus an and to


apologist
apologist /əˈpɒlədʒəst, əˈpɒlədʒɪst $ əˈpɑː-/ noun [countable]
someone who tries to explain and defend an idea, person, or political system
    apologist for
    an apologist for socialism


apolo·gistBrE /əˈpɒlədʒɪst/ 🔊NAmE /əˈpɑːlədʒɪst/ 🔊 noun~ (for sb/sth) a person who tries to explain and defend sth, especially a political system or religious ideas (尤指政治或宗教方面的)辩护者,辩解者