The word "apologist" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to someone who offers an argument or defense in support of a belief or opinion. For example, "The author is a well-known apologist for the idea that humans are causing global warming."
Indeed, one factor behind the rise of the Nazi apologist, Jörg Haider, is the political paralysis resulting from the Austrian economic miracle.
"I have long considered Waleed Aly, the former spokesman of the Islamic Council of Victoria, to be our most prominent apologist for Muslim extremism," the host of Ten's The Bolt Report wrote on his blog in September.
Others entirely fabricated my argument – accusing me of "contempt" for "all non-Muslims", or that I am a "burka" apologist.
After Kazan, his closest associate to testify was Lee J Cobb, the "mountainous hulk" who was the original Willy Loman in the first production of Death of a Salesman, a play which had provoked the unreconstructed Right into calling Miller a communist and caused the communists to denounce him as an apologist for capitalism.
NB: Lest anyone think I'm some kind of apologist for the Qatar government, I would remind you of this blogpost published on this blog on 27 May and in the London Evening Standard on 20 May.
He is Gloria's apologist, not her psyche.
This is not much of a solution.Ralph MusgraveDurhamRights and wrongsSIR – The right to free speech of course means that Nick Griffin, leader of the right-wing British National Party, and David Irving, a Nazi apologist, or anyone else charitably described as half-deranged can speak their mind at the Oxford Union or wherever else they have been invited to debate ("Invite and insult", December 1st).
The new system will be reviewed after two years, and the chairman of the IPC will be scrutinised by MPs before taking office making it harder for the government to install an apologist for growth-at-all-costs.
That is obnoxious coming from the LTTE's main arms procurer, an apologist for Prabhakaran for 35 years.
The students who came to hear Nick Griffin, the BNP's leader, speak alongside the Nazi apologist David Irving were mostly fey public-schoolboy types with plummy voices and the odd corduroy jacket, plus some fashionable young women.
Britain, Rwanda's biggest bilateral donor and keenest apologist, is expected to oppose such moves.
