Examples of use of justificatory
1. While these speeches end with an upbeat agenda for the future, they none the less have a strong retrospective, justificatory and occasionally even elegiac element – perhaps stronger than Tony Blair is himself aware of.
2. It also ran a serialisation of a self–justificatory book by the officer in charge of the case, Detective Inspector Keith Pedder, headlined ‘How British Justice Betrayed Rachel‘s Son‘. All the harassment and the tub–thumping, the misleading of Rachel Nickell‘s family and the denigration by the judge was in vain; a vast exercise in distraction left the real killer free to commit other crimes.