Definitions for apologist

apologist a·pol·o·gist

Spelling: [uh-pol-uh-jist]
IPA: /əˈpɒl ə dʒɪst/

Apologist is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 473 anagrams from letters in apologist (agiloopst).

Definitions for apologist

noun

  1. a person who makes a defense in speech or writing of a belief, idea, etc.
  2. Ecclesiastical. Also, apologete [uh-pol-uh-jeet] /əˈpɒl əˌdʒit/ (Show IPA). a person skilled in apologetics. one of the authors of the early Christian apologies in defense of the faith.

Origin of apologist

1630-40; apolog(y) + -ist or French apologiste

Examples for apologist

He has been cast as the standard-bearer for the economic oligarchs, the apologist for the top 1% of the top 1%.

There was nothing to be gained as either a propagandist or an apologist.

In the last decade or so of his life, Lewis gave up being an apologist, feeling he had lost his knack.

I have been vilified by some on the Left for being an apologist for colonialism, racism, and genocide.

It is difficult to discover in it any grounds upon which an apologist may build.

The relieved poet now had the floor as an apologist for his discourteous parrot.

It was Thursday, the one day of the week when Paradise needed no apologist.

She is an apologist of sublime lewdness, of emancipated human caninity.

Hardly an apologist for Vienna, Byron still found these tracts too extreme and in need of censoring.

September massacres then find, not their apologist, but their eulogist.

Word Value for apologist
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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