justifiable

Speech parts

1. justifiable - Adjective

2. justifiable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Capable of being justified, or shown to be just.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

defensible excusable vindicable warrantable just right sound legal tenable proper appropriate fit fair valid logical
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Antonyms

unjustifiable wildcat tidal crooked muharram mean
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Phrases with the word

justifiable charge justifiable assumption justifiable conclusion justifiable statement justifiable threat self-justifiable

Examples

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable. Daniel Webster

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war. Carroll Quigley

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual. Albert Einstein

Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin. Camille Paglia

While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization. Margaret Sanger

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain. Benjamin Tucker

Close letter words and terms

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