Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having sufficient grounds for justification; possible to justify.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being justified or proved to be just or true; defensible; warrantable: as, justifiable resentment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being justified, or shown to be just.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That can be
justified .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being justified
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Examples
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The inclusion of the word "justifiable" is clever: it is not, of course, the Left view, but it encapsulates a farily common conservative accusation.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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“You know, what you refer to as cold-blooded murder, others term justifiable homicide.”
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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“You know, what you refer to as cold-blooded murder, others term justifiable homicide.”
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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“You know, what you refer to as cold-blooded murder, others term justifiable homicide.”
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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South Dakota was contemplating -- but just tabled, thank goodness -- a bill that critics feared would expand the definition of justifiable homicide to include the murder of doctors who provide abortions.
Michael Winship: Across the U.S., GOP Lawmakers Build States of Denial Michael Winship 2011
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Further violations will result in justifiable allegations of anti-semitism. joejoejoe Says:
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Dropping two nukes to end the war with the Japanese faster and reduce the loss of life on the allies side (whether it was justifiable is up to personal opinion) but this guy committed an act of domestic terrorism.
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Anyone who still believes (in fact, anyone who ever believed) that the war in Iraq was justifiable is as crazy as Exley.
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"The enactment of mainstream legislation using emergency procedures undermines the consensus for the use of such procedures in justifiable cases."
B2fxxx 2004
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Taxes must be adequate to raise a revenue sufficient to meet those federal expenditures which are truly advantageous to the general welfare, to maintain justifiable confidence in the soundness of the dollar, and to underwrite the safety of the federal debt as an investment.
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