justified

Speech parts

1. justified - Adjective

2. justified - Verb

Derived from justify

4. justified - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Justify

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

right sound proper appropriate legitimate reasonable righteous lawful deserved defensible vindicated earned warranted well-founded substantiated
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Antonyms

unjustified wildcat tidal mad crooked sigmoid
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Phrases with the word

justified absence self-justified justified homicide

Examples

The law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian. Paul

The Saviour and the Comforter, two Persons of the Godhead: the One ever saves from sins, and the Other comforts him who is saved. Their very names are taken from their deeds, and are always actually justified. He comforts! The Holy Spirit comforts the believing soul, as a mother comforts her child. John of Kronstadt

Successful crimes alone are justified. John Dryden

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier. Edith Evans

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme. Henry James

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience. Theodore Roosevelt

Close letter words and terms

justificator justificatory justifie justified absence justified homicide justifiedly