justified
Americanadjective
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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.
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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.
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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
verb
Other Word Forms
- half-justified adjective
- unjustified adjective
- well-justified adjective
Etymology
Origin of justified
Example Sentences
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Older trusts, such as A/B trusts, often contain rigid language that restricts control for surviving spouses, a limitation no longer justified by tax benefits.
From Barron's
In some cases these fees are justified and align management with investors — originating and managing private investments is inherently more time-consuming than trading stocks or bonds.
From MarketWatch
He questioned whether freezing repayment thresholds was justified in a cost-of-living crisis and whether RPI was an appropriate benchmark for interest calculations.
From BBC
And I asked the class, “Do you think that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified as payback for what the Japanese military had done in Nanjing?”
From Salon
In reply, Brockman justified the women’s inclusion, and says they’d been a part of a related book about AI, which needed to be inclusive to sell.
From Salon
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