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dexify

verb

Etymology

Blend of defend + explain + justify.

  1. derived from justus
  2. derived from justificare
  3. derived from justifier
  4. inherited from justifien
  5. compounded as dexify — “defend + explain + justify”

Definitions

  1. Defend, explain, and/or justify.

    • Powerful people don't dexify (defend, explain, or justify).
    • The reason for this is that when you ask "why" questions people feel defensive and have a tendency to "dexify" (defend, explain, justify) what they said.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dexify. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA