单词 | apologist |
释义 | apologist From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishapologista‧pol‧o‧gist /əˈpɒlədʒɪst $ əˈpɑː-/ noun [countable]SUPPORT A PERSON, GROUP, OR PLANsomeone who tries to explain and defend an idea, person, or political systemapologist for an apologist for socialismExamples from the Corpusapologist• He 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. |
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