adjective. Tending or serving to excuse.

Making excuse; containing excuse or apology; apologetical: as, an excusatory plea.

adjective. Making or containing excuse or apology; apologetical.

adjective. serving to make an excuse

adjective. offering or expressing apology

"This is largely however because I'm more interested in the eploitative approach to strange fiction than the explicatory or excusatory approach."

defensive  justificative  justificatory  self-deprecating  

apologetic  apologetical  dispensative  dispensatory  excusative