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- verb biblical To
blame another for one's own wrong-doing. Blameshifting can be caused by pointing the finger at another when trying to save one's skin.
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Examples
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They have learned nothing from Carter or Castro because they are not reality-based ... they are the secular socialist borg ... the true believers who will make excuses and blameshift for years if need be.
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They have learned nothing from Carter or Castro because they are not reality-based ... they are the secular socialist borg ... the true believers who will make excuses and blameshift for years if need be.
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They have learned nothing from Carter or Castro because they are not reality-based ... they are the secular socialist borg ... the true believers who will make excuses and blameshift for years if need be.
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The G.O.P. is, especially after this really ugly 2008 campaign season, the headquarters ofthe ‘unreasonable, intolerant rightwinger, who is likely not to do any soul searching about why they lost the election, but will simply blameshift their defeat ontosome nebulous conspiracy of those progressives who they call "anti-American".
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