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41refuting — Synonyms and related words: apologetic, confounding, confutative, confuting, contradictory, contrary, excusatory, excusing, extenuating, extenuative, justificatory, justifying, palliative, refutative, refutatory, rehabilitative, vindicative,… …
42retaliatory — Synonyms and related words: amendatory, avenging, balancing, changeable, commutable, commutative, compensating, compensatory, convertible, counteracting, counteractive, counterbalancing, countervailing, equal, equalizing, equivalent, even,… …
43unappeasable — Synonyms and related words: a hog for, acquisitive, all devouring, avaricious, avenging, avid, bottomless, coveting, covetous, devouring, esurient, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy, grudgeful, hoggish, implacable, insatiable,… …
44venial — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. excusable, pardonable, slight, trivial. See vindication. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. excusable, pardonable, justifiable, allowable, trivial, exculpable, defensible, slight, vindicatory, warrantable …
45vindication — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Clearing from an accusation Nouns 1. vindication, justification, warrant; exoneration, exculpation; acquittal; whitewashing; extenuation; palliation, softening, mitigation. See justice. 2. reply, defense …
46excusable — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. pardonable, forgivable, understandable, justifiable, reasonable, defensible, permissible, trivial, passable, slight, minor, vindicable, vindicatory, exculpatory, warrantable, plausible, allowable, venial, remissible,… …
47apologetic — (adj.) 1640s, vindicatory, from Fr. apologétique, from L. apologeticus, from Gk. apologetikos defensible, from apologeisthai (see APOLOGY (Cf. apology)). Meaning regrefully acknowledging failure is from 1855. As a noun, formal defense, from early …
48avenging — a veng·ing || dʒɪŋ adj. of retribution; retributive; vindicatory; revenging a·venge || É™ vendÊ’ v. get revenge for …
49vindicate — [ vɪndɪkeɪt] verb 1》 clear of blame or suspicion. 2》 show to be right or justified. Derivatives vindicable adjective vindication noun vindicator noun vindicatory adjective Origin …
50exculpatory — a. Excusatory, vindicative, vindicatory, exonerative …
