"dexify" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "defend",
        "3": "explain",
        "4": "justify"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of defend + explain + justify",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of defend + explain + justify",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dexifies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dexifying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dexified",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dexified",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dexify (third-person singular simple present dexifies, present participle dexifying, simple past and past participle dexified)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1986, David Brandt, Don't Stop Now, You're Killing Me: The Sadomasochism Game in Everyday Life and How Not to Play It, Poseidon Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 88:",
          "text": "This is a common masochistic sabotage that I describe with the acronym \"dexify.\" When individuals defend, explain, or justify, they are unnecessarily supporting the reasons for their decision and giving others the opportunity to rebut their rationale.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Roberta Jean Bryant, Stop Improving Yourself and Start Living, New World Library, →ISBN, →OL, page 65:",
          "text": "Powerful people don't dexify (defend, explain, or justify).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 March, David Farlow, “Principles of Rapport - Focus Group Moderation”, in Quirk's Marketing Research Review, volume 5:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998 March 10, Robert Holman Coombs, Surviving Medical School, Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage Publications, →ISBN, →OL, page 145:",
          "text": "We may “dexify” — try to defend, explain and justify — so that the angry person will stop being angry with us.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Defend, explain, and/or justify."
      ],
      "id": "en-dexify-en-verb-2rn~Rfyw"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dexify"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "defend",
        "3": "explain",
        "4": "justify"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of defend + explain + justify",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of defend + explain + justify",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dexifies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dexifying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dexified",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dexified",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dexify (third-person singular simple present dexifies, present participle dexifying, simple past and past participle dexified)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English blends",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1986, David Brandt, Don't Stop Now, You're Killing Me: The Sadomasochism Game in Everyday Life and How Not to Play It, Poseidon Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 88:",
          "text": "This is a common masochistic sabotage that I describe with the acronym \"dexify.\" When individuals defend, explain, or justify, they are unnecessarily supporting the reasons for their decision and giving others the opportunity to rebut their rationale.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Roberta Jean Bryant, Stop Improving Yourself and Start Living, New World Library, →ISBN, →OL, page 65:",
          "text": "Powerful people don't dexify (defend, explain, or justify).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 March, David Farlow, “Principles of Rapport - Focus Group Moderation”, in Quirk's Marketing Research Review, volume 5:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998 March 10, Robert Holman Coombs, Surviving Medical School, Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage Publications, →ISBN, →OL, page 145:",
          "text": "We may “dexify” — try to defend, explain and justify — so that the angry person will stop being angry with us.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Defend, explain, and/or justify."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dexify"
}