self-justifying

And it was to them, and to some future self-justifying narrative, that Morsi was really speaking.

The rules which obtain among themselves appear to them self-evident and self-justifying.

The presentation of facts is self-justifying only when the facts are developed in their true proportion.

And it is of the nature of vanity and arrogance, if unchecked, to become cruel and self-justifying.

And in these days of his first devotion to Romola he needed a self-justifying argument.