Messing around on the edges merely renders you more apologist than sartorialist.
From the online.wsj.com
He became an outspoken Christian apologist and converted to Catholicism in 1982.
From the time.com
Critics initially dismissed him as an apologist for the disgraced Nixon coterie.
From the timesunion.com
John Darwin, an Oxford historian, is not a propagandist or apologist for empire.
From the independent.co.uk
He also was a notable early Christian apologist and a polemicist against heresy.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He knows that, like the rest of his torture-apologist brethren, he is a coward.
From the swampland.blogs.time.com
The headline is still wrong but it does not make me an apologist for the banks.
From the guardian.co.uk
He was also a philosopher, theologian, Christian apologist, playwright, and poet.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Jay Gordon, pediatrician to the children of the stars and anti-vaccine apologist?
From the scienceblogs.com
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A person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution; "an apologist for capital punishment"
Apologetics (from Greek u1F00u03C0u03BFu03BBu03BFu03B3u03AFu03B1, "speaking in defense") is the discipline of defending a position (often religious) through the systematic use of information. Early Christian writers (c. 120u2013220) who defended their faith against critics and recommended their faith to outsiders were called apologists...
One who makes an apology; One who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution
(Apologists) Christian theologians, scholars, and writers who explained and clarified Christian belief for others.
A Christian who gives an intellectual defense of their religion.