- conciliatory: appeasing;soothing; showing willingness to reconcile
- credible: capable of being believed; plausible
- exonerate: to free from blame
- incontrovertible: indisputable; not open to question
- indict: to officially charge with wrongdoing or a crime
- litigious: prone to engage in lawsuits
- parity: equality, as in amount, status or value (antonym: disparity)
- partisan: devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause
- rectitude: moral uprightness; righteousness
- remiss: lax in attending to duty; negligent
- repudiate: to reject the validity or authority of
- sanctimonious: feigning piety or righteousness
- scrupulous: principled, having a strong sense of right and wrong; conscientious and exacting.
- solicitous: concerned
- sophistry: plausible but misleading or fallacious argument
- substantiate: to support with proof or evidence; verify
- veracity: adherence to the truth; truthfulness
- vindicate: to free from blame