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31defensible — I adjective armed, believable, condonable, credible, defendable, exculpatory, excusable, impregnable, invincible, invulnerable, justifiable, justified, maintainable, pardonable, plausible, prepared, sound, supportable, tenable, unassailable,… …
32palliative — I (abating) adjective allaying, alleviating, alleviative, assuaging, assuasive, beneficial, calmative, consolatory, corrective, curative, easeful, helpful, lenient, drudge, mitigating, mitigative, modifying, modulatory, mollifying, pacifying,… …
33vindictive — I adjective angry, avenging, grudgeful, implacable, inclined to vengeance, malevolent, malicious, malignant, punitive, punitory, rancorous, resentful, retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, revengeful, spiteful, ulciscendi cupidus, unforgiving,… …
34apologetic — Synonyms and related words: abject, apologia, ascetic, atoning, cleansing, compensational, compensatory, compunctious, conscience stricken, contrite, defense, excusatory, excusing, expiatory, extenuating, extenuative, humble, humbled,… …
35extenuating — Synonyms and related words: altering, apologetic, assuasive, bounding, diminishing, excusatory, excusing, extenuative, extenuatory, justificatory, justifying, lenitive, lessening, limitative, limiting, mitigating, mitigative, mitigatory,… …
36implacable — Synonyms and related words: adamant, adamantine, avenging, cast iron, cruel, dour, firm, flinty, grim, grudgeful, hard, hard core, immovable, immutable, impliable, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, iron, irreconcilable …
37irreconcilable — Synonyms and related words: abnormal, absurd, adamant, adamantine, alienated, anomalous, assorted, at odds, at variance, avenging, bitter ender, brawler, cast iron, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, defendant, departing, deviating, deviative,… …
38palliative — Synonyms and related words: alleviating, alleviative, alleviator, allowance, altering, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, apologetic, assuager, assuasive, balm, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, bounding, calmant, calmative, cathartic, cleansing, color,… …
39punitive — Synonyms and related words: avenging, castigating, castigatory, chastening, chastising, compensatory, correctional, corrective, disciplinary, grudgeful, grueling, implacable, inflictive, irreconcilable, penal, penological, punishing, punitory,… …
40rancorous — Synonyms and related words: acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, antagonistic, antipathetic, avenging, belligerent, bitter, burning, caustic, choleric, clashing, colliding, conflicting, despiteful,… …
