He's an apologist for communism.
Source: tatoeba (12197124)
Apologist
//əˈpɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪst//
Synonyms for "apologist" (73 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (22)
Related words (36)
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11 entriesTranslations
56 translations across 24 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- ջատագով noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
Belarusian
4 entries- абаро́нца noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- апалаге́т noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- апалаге́тка noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- змага́р noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
Bulgarian
2 entries- апологе́т noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- апологе́тка noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
Catalan
4 entries- apologeta noun (one who makes an apology)
- apologeta noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- apologista noun (one who makes an apology)
- apologista noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 辯護士 /辩护士 noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
Czech
2 entries- apologeta noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- apologetka noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
Danish
4 entries- apologet noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- forsvarer noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- skønmaler noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- undskylder noun (one who makes an apology)
Dutch
1 entries- apologeet noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
Estonian
1 entries- apologeet noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
Finnish
1 entries- apologeetta noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
French
1 entries- apologiste noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
German
2 entries- Apologet noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- Apologetin noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
Hungarian
1 entries- apologéta noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
Indonesian
1 entries- apologet noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
Italian
2 entries- apologeta noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- apologista noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
Polish
3 entries- apologeta noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- apologetka noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- apologetyk noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
Portuguese
1 entries- apologista noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
Romanian
2 entries- apologet noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- apologetă noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
Russian
4 entries- апологе́т noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- апологе́тка noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- защи́тник noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- защи́тница noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- apològēt noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- аполо̀ге̄т noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
Slovak
2 entries- apologéta noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- apologétka noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
Spanish
2 entries- apologeta noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- apologista noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
Swedish
1 entries- apologet noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
Ukrainian
4 entries- апологе́т noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- апологе́тка noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- захисни́к noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
- захисни́ця noun (one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith)
Sample sentences
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He's a communism apologist.
Source: tatoeba (12197125)
[…] he will appear to many of the more speculatively minded intellectuals merely as a timid apologist of things as they are; at the same time he will be dismissed by the men of affairs as an impractical theorist.
Source: wiktionary
A genocide denier is an apologist for the next genocide. […] Mr. Handke is the Bob Dylan of genocide apologists.
Source: wiktionary
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