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Because as an actor, you have to rationalize his decisions constantly.

That conservative can always rationalize his actions—platitudes come cheap.

Let us not rationalize or attempt to justify an expulsion that in our hearts we know is wrong.

Rather than rationalize the tax code, or reform entitlements, the government has taken a cleaver to discretionary spending.

They rationalize away the facts, defend their position, and actually become more fervent.

It is at present a quite inexplicable story, and we give these preposterous facts with no attempt to rationalize them.

Nor, as a matter of fact, is it any more easy for the militarist to rationalize his method of solving world difficulties.

At present we give way to resentful passion, and then "rationalize" our surrender by calling it a vindication of justice.

I wanted her near my own size again as though the blessed normality of that would rationalize and lessen her danger.

It is more evil to "rationalize" the act—to invent a moral reason for doing an infamous thing.

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On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rationalize, such as: justify, deliberate, elucidate, excise, excuse, and extenuate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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