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| joiner |
someone who tends to join many organizations, often for reasons considered to be frivolous or self-serving. [1/3 definitions] |
| rationalization |
the act or process of accounting for one's behavior, events, or the like, with seemingly reasonable and logical explanations which are actually self-serving attempts to excuse or justify. |
| rationalize |
to account for (one's behavior, events, or the like) with apparently reasonable, but self-serving, explanations. [1/3 definitions] |
| Svengali |
one who exerts a mysterious controlling influence on another person or persons, usu. for self-serving or malevolent purposes. |
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