vocabulary help! is there a word to describe people who never admit anything is their fault?

[hugefanofcheese]

hi! Just wondering, is there an adjective that could describe people who never see that they have any accountability for anything that happens in their lives?

You know the sort, nothing's ever their fault, even in part, just a series of unfortunate events and usually, other people or organisations doing them wrong.

It seems to be a particular lack of self awareness, I'm not talking about say, deliberately denying criminal responsibility.

Asking because I know someone like this and not having the right word is really annoying me!

Narcissistic.

I generally call them twats myself

I know two people like this.

One is a narcissist - the makes everything about her, never admits she's wrong, everything that has ever gone bad in her life has been someone else's fault. Criticises other people's achievements and always turns it around to how it might impact on her.

The other is a nice enough person, but is a walking calamity. Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong, but there's always ALWAYS a long convoluted reason why she missed that deadline but it wasn't her fault because a colleague didn't get their bit to her on time, and then her car broke down, and then her mother got ill, and then the printer broke. It's exhausting. But I don't think she's a narcissist, she's just terrible at managing her life and won't take responsibility for it.

Psychological projection. Not an adjective though, sorry
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

dog owner.

'he didn't really bite you'.

Blinkered world view
Professional Victim
Eton old boy
game player
Buck Passer
Palestiner
Ian Paiseyist
Little Lord Faultless
serial gambler
borderline psycho
keynesian
Prince Andrew
order of the golden dick
godlike
Earl Kitchener's Pet Dog
mono-jovian
beyond / above reproach
ghetto feeder
maoist apologists
Brian Coxism
( he's the )sultan of brunei
flat world merchant
" the golden midas touch "

Mr magoo from the cartoons (if the persons nice, just seems to leave a trail of destruction in their wake).

Came on to say twats too
Lol at Teflon Timmy!

@bobbikato Palestiner?!

@YinuCeatleAyru

gaslighting narcissists. usually retrospectively rewrite history to say that they didn't say/do what they did, and require you to believe it.

Yes, my ex tried that. Didn't work on me as I ignored him, and from what I heard on the grapevine, so did everyone else. He's a sad, lonely old man (well, he'll be 60 soon) and he will likely remain that way as he will never, ever accept he has any blame.

But yes, I thought of Narcissist as the word, as soon as I saw the thread title. Am pretty sure ex has serious traits, if not full blown Narcissism.

Opps sorry i was thinking of the ...
people's front of judea .

self serving bias makes a lot of sense

sorry, just coming back to this, I would say the person I have in mind is delusional as well as dishonest in a lot of ways, genuinely believing herself to be very competent and generally sorted. it's maddening.

I think the scientific term is "external locus of control", www.edglossary.org/locus-of-control/

In one book I read, it was referred to as Snow White Syndrome. As in, they are white and pure and can do no wrong. My Dad has this big time. Everything is always someone elses fault. He is also a massive narcissist.

Trumpy

God complex?

Hubris?

I have one in my life, the perpetual victim. There's a lot of handwringing but nothing that they can ever do to help themselves, it's all so sad. My listing nine things they could do without leaving the settee is never helpful because of course the cause of all this is something that someone else did 12 years ago.

Professional victim?

Not an adjective but if you don’t mind I’m going to say Stuart.

@TheSandman - Trumpy is perfect! Using that.

A bullshitter, I know someone who does this, very manipulative and quick thinking, always manages to put a spin on a situation so that she is right and somebody else is wrong, or turn a situation to her advantage, never accepts blame, people are too scared to argue with her because she will shout anybody down and believes that she is superior to everyone.