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justified
[ juhs-tuh-fahyd ]
adjective
- having been shown to be just or right:
If a parent sides with one child over another, one will feel righteous and justified, and the other will feel misunderstood and resentful.
- warranted or well-grounded:
The commission’s stance is that bans on GMO crops must be scientifically justified and crop-specific.
I accept that there may be a penalty for justified civil disobedience, but I must weigh that penalty against the good that can be accomplished.
- Printing. aligned with one or, especially, both margins:
Justified text looks a little neater, but there's nothing particularly wrong with having a ragged right edge.
noun
- Theology. Usually the justified. a person or persons believed to be worthy, redeemed, or absolved:
Good works are logically and morally necessary, for they are nothing more or less than the evidence that one is indeed among the justified.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of justify ( def ).
Other 51Թ Forms
- -ܲ·پ·ھ adjective
- ܲ·ܲ·پ·ھ adjective
- ɱ-ܲ·پ·ھ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of justified1
Example Sentences
Another council member, Eunisses Hernandez, requested more information from the department about whether the millions spent on its helicopter fleet was justified given the city’s financial straits.
That has harmed America and resulted in a plummeting public trust in national news outlets, they assert, adding that FCC intervention may be justified.
When someone's rage is justified, such as when their family member has been disappeared to an El Salvadoran gulag for Kristi Noem's photo shoot, it's unsettling.
That was apparently because Decker published an essay, titled "When Must We Kill Them?," on his blog posing the question of when violence becomes justified in the face of authoritarianism.
Lauren’s celebrity and the circumstances of the shooting have sparked debate about whether she was justified to defend her property.
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