Related Clues:

• Genuine about targeted person's response
• Present an opposing view
• Refutation or counter-argument
• Denial is genuine, victim admitted
• Only later getting upset about the contradiction
• Counter-argument later changed to accommodate objection
• The last of a cigarette, in true denial
• Counter-argument that's genuine about central target
• Victim in genuine denial
• Only later gets flustered about the disproof
• Laughing stock snared by factual disproof
• Defendant gives this reply, but later falls apart
• Object of ridicule in genuine denial of charge
• Scapegoat in genuine denial
• Objection put in afterwards, mounting argument against