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rationalisations

n. (plural of rationalisation English)

Usage examples of "rationalisations".

Whatever the rationalisations and excuses, the one palpable fan remained that she had deserted her own father in his hour of greatest peril.

The rationalisations she had been trying to construct were now running around inside her head screaming to be let out and she let them go.

You can be made to do all kinds of absurd things, and will then cheerfully invent the most transparent rationalisations to explain them to yourself.