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单词 motive-hunting
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motive-hunting
motive-hunting n. the action or practice of looking for a motive to justify one's own actions or explain those of another.
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a1819 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1998) IV. 862 The motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity.
1889 Cent. Mag. Nov. 67/2 [He] not only loved to go a motive-hunting, but he also deliberately hunted for the very worst motive he could find.
1975 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 80 1010 [His] propensity to fall prey to a vulgar type of motive hunting.
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