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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.
Other 51Թ Forms
- half-justified adjective
- unjustified adjective
- well-justified adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of justified1
Example Sentences
That hurting and killing Democrats is justified because, according to the conspiracists, Democrats started it.
Brown man allegedly lunging is the new Black man driving — scary enough that any response is justified.
But those rights were always fragile and accompanied by anti-immigrant campaigns justified with the concept of "illegality."
Border tsar Tom Homan has justified these arrests as "collateral" damage, arguing that agents cannot legally justify encountering undocumented immigrants and not detaining them.
Whether that cautious optimism is justified may soon be known.
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