Defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
English: apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise
Bahasa: alasan, membenarkan, menghalalkan, berkilah, merasionalisasi, merasionalkan, menyungguhkan, menashihkan
berdalihBahasa Indonesia
apologise, apologize, dodge, excuse, justify
Less common
#18,549 of the corpus · 2.4 per million words · 10,365 occurrences
From dalih (ber-) · less common, #13,372
Verb
Move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course
English: dodge
Bahasa: mengelakkan, mengelak, menepis
Less certain link between this word and this sense.