apologist
noun
- a person who defends or advocates a usually religious position
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /əˈpɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/
noun
Etymology: From apology + -ist, from French apologiste.
- One who makes an apology.
“[…] he will appear to many of the more speculatively minded intellectuals merely as a timid apologist of things as they are; at the same time he will be dismissed by the men of affairs as an impractical theorist.”
“A genocide denier is an apologist for the next genocide. […] Mr. Handke is the Bob Dylan of genocide apologists.”
- One who makes an apology.