Crossword-Solution: RATIONALIZATION 15 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 24

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Rationalization n. The act or process of rationalizing.

We have 11 clues for the answer “RATIONALIZATION”

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Blame-shifting 1 answer
Post-hoc explanation 1 answer
Wishful thinking, in a way. 1 answer
tell the world 37 answers
MENTAL training 53 answers
Rationalisation 60 answers
clearance 72 answers
Exposition 76 answers
pretext 78 answers
Ground 80 answers
judgment 101 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with RATIONALIZATION (5)

His rationalization was that he was being paid a great deal of money for the job, and he was working for a more important cause, one that would make it all worthwhile.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
Allen Guttman distinguished several characteristics of modern sports: secularism, equality of opportunity, specialization of roles, rationalization, bureaucratic organization, quantification, and quest for records.
The Civilization of Illiteracy Mihai Nadin 2000
But he knew now that he was fond of her as a man is of a woman--and it was hell! For no rationalization in the universe would allow him to define her as human.
The Lani People J. F. Bone 2001
The whole edifice is precariously balanced on pillars of denial, splitting, projection, rationalization, and projective identification.
The Development Psychology of Psychopathology Sam Vaknin 2007
All this goes on often under naïve rationalization about justice and patriotism, but it is pure and innate lust to run something down and hurt it"); (10) anger, pugnacity; (11) revolt at confinement, at being limited in liberty of action and choice; (12) revulsion; (13) leadership and mastery; (14) subordination, submission; (15) display, vanity, ostentation; (166) sex.
An American Idyll Cornelia Stratton Parker 2005

Quotes with RATIONALIZATION (3)

Then you get the wrong answer and you can't go to the Moon that way! Nature isn't a person, you can't trick them into believing something else, if you try to tell the Moon it's made of cheese you can argue for days and it won't change the Moon! What you're talking about is rationalization, like starting with a sheet of paper, moving straight down to the bottom line, using ink to write 'and therefore, the Moon is made of cheese', and then moving back up to write all sorts of c…
Eliezer Yudkowsky Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Pre-modern forms of authority , based predominantly upon value-rationality and natural law, are here succeeded by legal-rational forms of domination and by the rule of instrumental reason. With this, religious beliefs and ultimate ideals gradually recede from (public) life as they are disenchanted by the claims of 'rational' science and are replaced increasingly by the idealized pursuit of secular, material ends. This leads to a world in which questions of meaning and value d…
Nicolas Gane
Paranoia is transmissible from mind to mind, but it does not go by the route of reason. It can therefore change its rationalization while remaining essentially the same.
William Nicholls Christian Antisemitism
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Used 3 times in crossword archives (1969–2015).